The ALPS -

- mountain range in central Europe, meaning high, snow-capped mountain; French & Latin Alpes

[perhaps from altus = high (PIE🔍 root alb = hill) or albus (PIE albʰós) = white) or possibly after the

Greek Mythology corn-mother goddess/ boogeyman Alphito, from alphos = white.*] Alt. they were

also called Alpes by the Celts, so it may be of Celtic origin.

The Alps stretch across ~ 750 miles (~1,200 km) and eight countries (from west to east🔍):

Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria + Slovenia.

Many mountains are referred to as "Alps" in a reference to the original range, such as: the Japanese Alps

the Arrochar Alps | Scotland, the Balkan Dinaric Alps, Scandinavian Lyngen Alps, the Australian Alps,

the Stauning Alps, | Greenland, the Transylvanian Alps | Romania, the California Trinity Alps | USA,

the Southern Alps | New Zealand and even the Montes Alpes, on the Moon🥚.

   * Interestingly making Alp mean virtual the same thing as caucasus🔍