Šar Mountains
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mountain range in the eastern Balkan Peninsula
Key facts
- Peak
- Titov Vrv , North Macedonia
- Elevation
- 2,748 m (9,016 ft)
- Native name
- Шар Планина ( Macedonian ) Шар-планина / Šar-planina ( Serbian ) Malet e Sharrit ( Albanian )
- Location
- Kukës and Dibër Counties – Albania , Ferizaj and Prizren Districts – Kosovo , Polog Valley – North Macedonia
- Countries
- Albania Kosovo North Macedonia
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Encyclopedic overview
The Šar Mountains (Macedonian: Шар Планина, romanized: Šar Planina; Serbian: Шар-планина / Šar-planina; colloquially also Šara, Cyrillic: Шара) or Sharr Mountains (Albanian: Malet e Sharrit, pronounced [malɛt ɛ ʃarit]) is a mountain range in Southeast Europe, extending into several countries from southern Kosovo, to northwestern North Macedonia, to northeastern Albania. The sections in Kosovo (Sharr Mountains National Park) and North Macedonia (Šar Planina National Park) are national parks. Rugged and barren, the mountains are among the highest in the Balkans, with 30 peaks higher than 2,500 m (8,202 ft).
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Šar Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.