"The Black Mountain The Black Mountain is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1954. The story was also collected in the omnibus volume ""Three Trumps"" (Viking 1955). This book and the pre-war novel ""Over My Dead Body"" both involve international intrigue over Montenegro, but under very different circumstances, first concerning Nazi designs on the Balkans, and later in the context of Tito's Yugoslavia. In ""The Black Mountain"", Nero Wolfe's oldest friend and fellow Montenegrin Marko Vukcic is murdered by a Yugoslavian agent who has already made his escape from New York."
"Montenegrins Montenegrins (Montenegrin and/or Serbian: Црногорци""/Crnogorci"", ), literally ""People of the Black Mountain"", are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Montenegro. Migrant communities exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, United States, Argentina, Germany, Luxembourg, Chile, Canada, and Australia. Slavs have lived in the area of Montenegro since the 6th and 7th centuries in the medieval state of Doclea. Montenegro (Serbian and/or Montenegrin: ""Crna Gora""; literally translates as “Black Mountain”) got its present name during the rule of the Crnojević dynasty in 15th century. Since the end of the 17th century, Montenegro existed as a"
"Montenegrins Montenegrins (Montenegrin and/or Serbian: Црногорци""/Crnogorci"", ), literally ""People of the Black Mountain"", are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Montenegro. Migrant communities exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, United States, Argentina, Germany, Luxembourg, Chile, Canada, and Australia. Slavs have lived in the area of Montenegro since the 6th and 7th centuries in the medieval state of Doclea. Montenegro (Serbian and/or Montenegrin: ""Crna Gora""; literally translates as “Black Mountain”) got its present name during the rule of the Crnojević dynasty in 15th century. Since the end of the 17th century, Montenegro existed as a"
"Lazica. Pontus (region) Pontus (; , ""Sea"") is a historical Greek designation for a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland (rising to the Pontic Alps in the east) in antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Πόντος Εὔξεινος ""Pontos Euxeinos"" (""Hospitable Sea""), or simply ""Pontos"". Having originally no specific name, the region east of the river Halys was spoken of as the country Ἐν Πόντῳ"
"Black Hills The Black Hills (; ; ) are a small and isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Black Elk Peak (formerly known as Harney Peak), which rises to , is the range's highest summit. The Black Hills encompass the Black Hills National Forest. The name ""Black Hills"" is a translation of the Lakota "". The hills were so-called because of their dark appearance from a distance, as they were covered in trees. Native Americans have a long history in the Black Hills. After conquering"
"placed in the context of wider events in Colombia. Montenegro, Quindío Montenegro () is a municipality in the western part of the department of Quindío, Colombia. It is located 10 km west of the departmental capital Armenia. Montenegro (literally: Black Mountain) was named for the dark green color of the trees that originally covered the hill above the current-day site of the township, which was visible from other parts of the region as it rose above the surrounding guadua forests. Between 1897 and 1904, Montenegro was officially known as Villa Quindío. The boundaries of Montenegro are principally formed by three"
"Pontus (region) Pontus (; , ""Sea"") is a historical Greek designation for a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland (rising to the Pontic Alps in the east) in antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Πόντος Εὔξεινος ""Pontos Euxeinos"" (""Hospitable Sea""), or simply ""Pontos"". Having originally no specific name, the region east of the river Halys was spoken of as the country Ἐν Πόντῳ ""En"
"Black Hills Land Claim The Black Hills Land Claim is an ongoing land dispute between Native Americans from the Sioux Nation and the United States government. The Black Hills, the United States' oldest mountain range, is long and wide stretching across South Dakota and Wyoming. The Black Hills derived its name from the black image that is produced by the ""thick forest of pine and spruce trees"" that covers the hills and was given the name by the Native Americans belonging to the Lakota (Sioux). The Lakota Sioux settled the area in about 1765 after being pushed out of Wisconsin"
"was the source of the country name ""Nigeria"" the English word ""Negro"" and the word for ""black"" in most modern Romance languages (French: ""noir""; Spanish and Portuguese: ""negro""; Italian: ""nero"" ). Old High German also had two words for black: ""swartz"" for dull black and ""blach"" for a luminous black. These are parallelled in Middle English by the terms ""swart"" for dull black and ""blaek"" for luminous black. ""Swart"" still survives as the word ""swarthy"", while ""blaek"" became the modern English ""black"". In heraldry, the word used for the black color is sable, named for the black fur of the"
"Black Mountain, Queensland Black Mountain is a small rural residential locality in Queensland, Australia. It is within the local government area of Shire of Noosa (between 2008 and 2013 it was within Sunshine Coast Region). Located inland from Cooroy and Pomona, it affords magnificent views of the surrounding area. The suburb was officially named on 5 June 1998 after a prominent feature of the area—the high point upon which sits a number of communication towers serving the Noosa Hinterland. The local population grew by 132 between the 2006 and 2011 census and now stands at 582 men and 593 women"
"Abnoba mons The Latin name Abnoba Mons (Pre-Germanic ""Abnoba""; Ancient Greek ""τὰ Ἄβνοβα"", ""ta Abnoba"", ""Abnobaia orē"") is the name of a mountain range that was already known to ancient authors Pliny and Tacitus. The name has been traditionally, primarily associated in historical research with the Black Forest. Ptolemy used the toponym in his A.D. 150 publication, ""Geographia"", as a mountain range lying within Germania magna () with its southern extent at 31° 49' and its northern extremity at 31° 52'. The geographer clearly did not restrict this name to present day Black Forest, but to an entire mountain chain."
"Abnoba mons The Latin name Abnoba Mons (Pre-Germanic ""Abnoba""; Ancient Greek ""τὰ Ἄβνοβα"", ""ta Abnoba"", ""Abnobaia orē"") is the name of a mountain range that was already known to ancient authors Pliny and Tacitus. The name has been traditionally, primarily associated in historical research with the Black Forest. Ptolemy used the toponym in his A.D. 150 publication, ""Geographia"", as a mountain range lying within Germania magna () with its southern extent at 31° 49' and its northern extremity at 31° 52'. The geographer clearly did not restrict this name to present day Black Forest, but to an entire mountain chain."
"the federation peacefully dissolved on 3 June of that year. Since 1990, the sovereign state of Montenegro has been governed by the Democratic Party of Socialists and its minor coalition partners. Classified by the World Bank as an upper middle-income country, Montenegro is a member of the UN, NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe and the Central European Free Trade Agreement. It is a founding member of the Union for the Mediterranean. The country's name derives from Venetian and translates to ""Black Mountain"", deriving from the appearance of Mount"
"1993, but as a result it was admitted under the provisional reference of the ""former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"", sometimes abbreviated as FYROM. The name ""Macedonia"" derives from the Greek (""Makedonía""), a kingdom (later, region) named after the ancient Macedonians, from the Greek (""Makedones""), ""Macedonians"", explained as having originally meant either ""the tall ones"" or ""highlanders"". The word (""Makednon"") is first attested in Herodotus as the name which the Greek ethnos was called (which was later called Dorian) when it settled around Pindus mountain range. ""Makednon"" is related to the Ancient Greek adjective (""makednós""), meaning ""tall, slim"", attested in Homer"
"speaks the Skopska Crna Gora dialect of the Macedonian language. Skopska Crna Gora Skopska Crna Gora (Macedonian and , , ; meaning ""Black Mountain of Skopje""), often called and only as Crna Gora (Macedonian and Serbian Cyrillic: , Albanian: ; meaning ""Black Mountain""), also historically known as Karadağ (Turkish for ""Black Mountain"", Macedonian and , , Albanian: ), is a mountain range largely in the Republic of Macedonia, with smaller part in Kosovo. It lies between the cities of Kaçanik (in southern Kosovo) and Skopje (in Macedonia). The highest peak is Ramno () in Macedonia. The largest town on the"
"was the Latin name given by the Romans to the area of modern-day Scotland, and with Nova Scotia translating as 'New Scotland', also from Latin, the names in the area obviously reflect this heritage. In 1884, Caledonia served as the hub for the gold rush in the nearby communities of Whiteburne and North Brookfield. The N.F. Douglas lumber mill in Caledonia was one of the area's main employers until its closure in 2014. Other industries include forestry, farming, a blueberry processing operation, and Kejimkujik National Park. Caledonia has a range of shops and services including; grocery, pharmacy, hardware store, gas"
"Mountain in the United States; Zaldívar and La Coipa in Chile; North Mara in Tanzania; South Deep in South Africa; Porgera in Papua New Guinea; and Osborne, Henty, Kalgoorlie, and Granny Smith in Australia. In New South Wales Australia, Placer Dome obtained ownership of the defunct Timbarra Gold Mine, where it achieved some local acclaim for setting new, higher State standards for mining rehabilitation. Placer Dome (and now Barrick) are defendants in an ongoing court battle over the highly controversial Marcopper mining disaster, which took place at the Marcopper Mine (run by Marcopper, a Placer Dome subsidiary) on the island"
"Spanish (""loma""-hill, ""prieta""-dark). The Spanish also called the middle portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains the Sierra Morena meaning (""morena""-brunette, ""sierra""-mountain range), extending from Half Moon Bay Road (California State Route 92) south to a gap at Lexington Reservoir, and which includes a summit called Sierra Morena. There are over 100 ""Black Mountains"" in California. After extensive logging operations in the nineteenth century, Italian farmers and winemakers settled on the flanks of Montebello Ridge. Dairies in the Santa Cruz Mountains supplied much of the milk for San Francisco and the Peninsula. There was a large dairy near what is now"
"times, ""Albania"" was a name for the eastern Caucasus, while in the English languages ""Albania"" (or ""Albany"") was occasionally used as a name for Scotland, although it is more likely derived from the Latin ""albus"", the color white. The Latin word ""Alpes"" could possibly come from the adjective ""albus"" (“white”). In modern languages the term ""alp"", ""alm"", ""albe"" or ""alpe"" refers to a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks. An ""alp"" refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be"
"Black Mountain (near Los Altos, California) Black Mountain is a summit on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains of west Santa Clara County, California, south of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, and west of Cupertino; it is within the Palo Alto city limits though not near the developed part of the city. It is located on the border between Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve and Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, with the summit located in the former. Early Spanish explorers commonly named tree- or chaparral-covered summits which look black in the distance Loma Prieta, from the"
"Black Mountain, North Carolina Black Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 7,848 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is named for the old train stop at the Black Mountain Depot and is located at the southern end of the Black Mountain range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Southern Appalachians. Black Mountain in its present form was incorporated in 1893. The first recorded inhabitants of the area were the Cherokee. A road was built through the area in 1850 and a railroad"
"in the feminine form ""tamurt"". The same word ""mur"" appears in Mauretania, the North African kingdom from antiquity, although the link remains controversial as this name possibly originates from μαύρος ""mavros"", the ancient Greek word for black. The common English spelling is ""Marrakesh"", although ""Marrakech"" (the French spelling) is also widely used. The name is spelt ""Mṛṛakc"" in the Berber Latin alphabet, ""Marraquexe"" in Portuguese, ""Marraquech"" in Spanish, and ""Mer-raksh"" in Moroccan Arabic. From medieval times until around the beginning of the 20th century, the entire country of Morocco was known as the ""Kingdom of Marrakesh"", as the kingdom's historic"
"why the term ""Levant"" has come to be used more specifically to refer to modern Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Cyprus. Some scholars misunderstood the term thinking that it derives from the name of Lebanon. Today the term is often used in conjunction with prehistoric or ancient historical references. It has the same meaning as ""Syria-Palestine"" or ""Ash-Shaam"" (, ), the area that is bounded by the Taurus Mountains of Turkey in the North, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia in the east. Typically, it does not include Anatolia (also called Asia"
"now also considered controversial because it honors the white settler who once owned the land, rather than the colonial African-American). In February 2011, nine Maryland State Senators introduced a bill to rename Negro Mountain and Polish Mountain. All four Western Maryland representatives testified against the proposed bill, which was voted down in committee. Negro Mountain Negro Mountain is a long ridge of the Allegheny Mountains, stretching from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, north to the Casselman River in Pennsylvania, United States. The summit, Mount Davis, is the highest point (3,213 feet) in Pennsylvania. Negro Mountain is flanked by Laurel Hill"
"Negroland Negroland or Nigritia, was an archaic term in European mapping, describing the inland and, by westerners, poorly explored region in West Africa as an area populated with negro people. This area comprised at least the western part of the region called Sudan (not to be confused with the modern country). The term is probably a direct translation of the Arabic term ""Bilad al-Sudan"" meaning ""Land of the blacks"", corresponding to about the same area. There were various kinds of people in the area, including the Jews of Bilad el-Sudan. Some of the greatest states of those considered part of"
"the Latin word ""niger"", meaning ""black"", which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root ""*nek-"", ""to be dark"", akin to ""*nok-"", ""night"". ""Negro"" was also used of the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River. From the 18th century to the late 1960s, ""negro"" (later capitalized) was considered to be the proper English-language term for people of black African origin. According to Oxford Dictionaries, use of the word ""now seems out of date or even offensive in both British and US English"". A specifically female form of the word, ""negress"" (sometimes"
"may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from ""alp"". This may be consistent with the theory that in Greek ""Alpes"" is a name of non-Indo-European origin (which is common for prominent mountains and mountain ranges in the Mediterranean region). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Latin ""Alpes"" might possibly derive from a pre-Indo-European word *""alb"" ""hill""; ""Albania"" is a related derivation. Albania, a name not native to the region known as the country of Albania, has been used as a name for a number of mountainous areas across Europe. In Roman"
"known as ""Bruttium"", after the Bruttians who inhabited the region. Later in the seventh century AD, the Byzantine Empire created the Duchy of Calabria from the Salento and the Ionian part of Bruttium. Even though the Calabrian part of the duchy was conquered by the Longobards during the eighth and ninth centuries AD, the Byzantines continued to use the name ""Calabria"" for their remaining territory in Bruttium. The modern name ""Italy"" derives from ""Italia"", which was first used as a name for the southern part of modern Calabria. Over time the Greeks started to use it for the rest of"
"Geographic Names officially changed the mountain's name from ""Harney Peak"" to ""Black Elk Peak"" on August 11, 2016, by a unanimous vote of 12–0, with one abstention. On August 18, 2016, Gov. Daugaard announced that the state would accept the new name. Hinhan Kaga and the Black Hills were protected within the Great Sioux Reservation established by the United States government in the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868; it covered most of the territory west of the Missouri River in South Dakota (the area now called West River). American settlement was concentrated east of the river, where there was"
"present-day Black Hills because of a granite intrusion, approximately 60 million years ago. The Black Hills are the easternmost segment of the Laramide orogeny. The Dakota hogback rim separates the surrounding flat plains from the two-mile-wide Red Valley trench of the Black Hills. The ridge ""presents a steep face towards the valley and rises several hundred feet above it. Green Mountain (Google Maps), also known as the Little Sundance Dome, is found just east of Sundance, Wyoming. It is a circular dome about 1800m across and 1400m wide surrounded by a rim of triangular hogbacks (similar in appearance to flatirons)."
"Black Tooth Mountain Black Tooth Mountain () is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is the second highest in the range after Cloud Peak, which is only to the south, and the summit is located in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest. The sharp dark profile of the mountain resembles a dark tooth or fang, hence the name. Because of the steep terrain, Black Tooth Mountain is one of the hardest mountains to climb in the Bighorns. Many of the trails up the mountain are unmarked which adds to the difficulty"
"and sporting figures Religion Film, television, and theater Politicians Black Mountain, North Carolina Black Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 7,848 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is named for the old train stop at the Black Mountain Depot and is located at the southern end of the Black Mountain range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Southern Appalachians. Black Mountain in its present form was incorporated in 1893. The first recorded inhabitants of the area were the Cherokee. A road was"
"Skopska Crna Gora Skopska Crna Gora (Macedonian and , , ; meaning ""Black Mountain of Skopje""), often called and only as Crna Gora (Macedonian and Serbian Cyrillic: , Albanian: ; meaning ""Black Mountain""), also historically known as Karadağ (Turkish for ""Black Mountain"", Macedonian and , , Albanian: ), is a mountain range largely in the Republic of Macedonia, with smaller part in Kosovo. It lies between the cities of Kaçanik (in southern Kosovo) and Skopje (in Macedonia). The highest peak is Ramno () in Macedonia. The largest town on the mountain is Kučevište in Macedonia. Macedonian population of the region"