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Gerlachovský štít
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Gerlachovský štít is the highest mountain in Slovakia's High Tatras mountain range. It serves as a notable natural landmark and popular destination for hikers and mountaineers visiting the region.
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- 2655
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Gerlachovský štít 3D Gerlachovský štít (Slovak pronunciation, translated into English as Gerlachov Peak, German: Gerlsdorfer Spitze, Hungarian: Gerlachfalvi-csúcs), informally referred to as Gerlach, is the highest peak in the High Tatras, in Slovakia, and in the Carpathian Mountains. Its elevation is usually listed at 2654.4 m above sea level. The mountain features a vertical rise of approximately 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) above the valley floor.
Mistaken for an average mountain in the rugged High Tatras range in the more distant past, it has since played a symbolic role in the eyes of the rulers and populations of several Central European nations, to the point that between the 19th and mid-20th century, it had four different names with six name reversals. Due to geopolitical changes, it was successively the highest mountain of the Kingdom of Hungary, and of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia and then Czechoslovakia again within the span of less than three decades of the 20th century.
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