Pennines Pennines The Pennines , also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England. Often described as the "backbone of England", the Pennine Hills form a more-or-less continuous range stretching northwards from the Peak District in the northern Midlands, through the South Pennines, Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines up to the Tyne Gap, which separates the range from the Cheviot Hills. Some definitions of the Pennines also include the Cheviot Hills while excluding the southern Peak District. South of the Aire Gap
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