Tatra Mountains
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The Tatra Mountains is a mountain range that forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. They are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains. The Tatras should not be confused with the Low Tatras (Template:Lang-sk), which are located south of the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia.
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Notable people
(Alphabetical by surname)
- Adam Asnyk, poet and dramatist, one of the first members of the Tatra Society
- Klemens Bachleda (1851-1910), Polish mountain guide and mountain rescuer
- Oswald Balzer
- Tytus Chałubiński, founder of the Polish Tatra Society
- Jan Długosz (mountaineer)
- Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski
- Julian Fałat
- Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, considered the father of Polish school of landscape painting, was the first to devote an entire series of works to Tatra Mountains
- Seweryn Goszczyński, Polish Romantic poet who escaped there from the Austrian invader
- Ludwig Greiner, identified Gerlachovský Peak as the summit of the Tatras and Carpathians
- Ruth Hale (alpinist)
- Władysław Hasior
- William Horwood (novelist), whose novel Wolves of Time largely takes place in the Tatra mountains
- Mieczysław Karłowicz
- Jan Kasprowicz
- Kornel Makuszyński
- Franciszek Nowicki
- Władysław Orkan
- Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
- Daniel Speer, Baroque composer and writer
- Stanisław Staszic
- Mieczysław Szczuka
- Karol Szymanowski
- Göran Wahlenberg
- Stanisław Witkiewicz
- Leon Wyczółkowski
- Władysław Zamoyski
- Mariusz Zaruski
- Ludwik Zejszner
- Stefan Żeromski
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