Spi

Download or read book Spi written by LLC Books and published by Books LLC. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters: Tatra Mountains, Poprad, Gerlachovsky tit, Szepes County, Levo a, Spi ska Nova Ves, Krompachy, High Tatras, Vysoke Tatry, Stara ubov a, Ke marok, Low Beskids, ehra, Spi Castle, Gelnica, Spi ska Kapitula, Ganovce, trbske Pleso, Belianske Tatras, Spi ska Bela, Spi ske Podhradie, Spi ska Stara Ves, Spi sky tiavnik, Spi sky tvrtok, Slovak Paradise, Slovak Ore Mountains, Levo a District, Marianska Hora, Stary Smokovec, Spi sky Hrhov, Bijacovce, Hernad, Tatranska Lomnica, Spi ske Bystre, Spi ska Teplica, Hnilec, Dlhe Stra e, Do any, Levo a District, Vy ny Slavkov, Beharovce, Brutovce, Buglovce, Baldovce, Katu . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 152. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gerlachovsky tit - Gerlachovsky tit literally means the "Peak (of the village) of Gerlachov." A Slovak colloquial name is Gerlach. The Polish names are Gerlach or Gierlach, while its Polish colloquial names are Girlach and Garuch. The peak's earliest recorded name was the Szepes-German Kosselberg (Cauldron Mountain) on a map from 1762. The Slovak name of the mountain was first recorded as Kotol, also meaning "Cauldron," in 1821. Both names referred to the peak's characteristic cauldron-like cirque. The name that became common in travel books and other literature in the 19 century, however, is its current name linking the mountain to the village of Gerlachov at its foot. It echoed the oldest known undifferentiated reference to the peaks on or near Gerlachov's municipal lands, Gerlachfalvenses montes (Latin with Hungarian elements for the "Gerlachov Village Mountains"), in a drawing of the High Tatras from 1717. It also paralleled the name Gerlsdorfer Spitze (Gerlachov Peak) used by the first person to identify it as the highest peak in the Tatras in 1838 (see below), which was rendered as gerl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1245479