Great Alf.ld

English translation: Great Hungarian Plain

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English term or phrase:	Great Alf.ld
Selected answer:	Great Hungarian Plain

06:57 Nov 9, 2011

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English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Geography

English term or phrase: Great Alf.ld

The prospect of mortality attending the birth of Fül.p and Elize’s
children robbed them of the pleasures they should have enjoyed as the
last in a line of successful Jewish merchants in the small farming town
of Makó on the fringes of the Habsburg Empire. Nestled in a crook of
the tranquil Maros River, the agrarian outpost was a lonely spot in the
midst of the Great Alf.ld, a flat expanse the size of Holland running
east and west across the county. Makó was like an island, surrounded
in the winter by a sea of furrowed black soil stretching outward as far
as the eye could see, and in the spring and summer by an undulating
tapestry of green.

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Great Hungarian Plain

Explanation:
Great Alf Id is another name for the Great Hungarian Plain

"The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, Hungarian: Alföld)[1][2] is a plain occupying the southern and eastern part of Hungary, some parts of the Eastern Slovak Lowland(Východoslovenská nížina), southwestern Ukraine, the Transcarpathian Lowland (Zakarpats'ka nyzovyna), western Romania (various names), northern Serbia (various names), and eastern Croatia (various names)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hungarian_Plain

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see also references here:

http://202.87.46.97/aircel/UNI/BHistory_art.aspx?artclid=108...

and here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ślepowron_coat_of_arms

also several references online in Google books results

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