Mountains and hills of England the Pennines (often called "the backbone of England") continues into the Yorkshire Dales, a limestone-dominated area of broad valleys and moorland. The Yorkshire Three Peaks are some of the highest summits in the area, which became a national park in 1954. The Yorkshire Dales end at Skipton, and a short distance to the south is a range of moors that rises up between the urban cores of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. The range has no continuous name - the western part as far as Blackburn is called the West Pennine Moors, the eastern part north of the A646 (including
Syrian Coastal Mountain Range the mountains formed parts of the eastern border of the Alawite State within the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. Syrian Coastal Mountain Range The Coastal Mountain Range ( "Silsilat al-Jibāl as-Sāḥilīyah") is a mountain range in northwestern Syria running north-south, parallel to the coastal plain. The mountains have an average width of , and their average peak elevation is just over with the highest peak, Nabi Yunis, reaching , east of Latakia. In the north the average height declines to , and to in the south. Classically, this range was known as the Bargylus; a name mentioned by