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Also known as Holohory

thumb|right|300px| Vapnyarka Mountain of Holohory, a [[natural monument]] Holohory (; ; ) is a hill range in the northwestern part of Podolian Upland, Ukraine, stretching from Lviv to Zolochiv, constituting part of the European watershed. The name literally means "bare mountains".

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thumb|right|300px| Vapnyarka Mountain of Holohory, a [[natural monument]] Holohory (; ; ) is a hill range in the northwestern part of Podolian Upland, Ukraine, stretching from Lviv to Zolochiv, constituting part of the European watershed. The name literally means "bare mountains".

==Geographic features== Holohory ridge has a length of 45 kilometers, reaching from Bibrka to the village of Pluhiv in Zolochiv Raion. It width reaches 10 kilometers. The northern edge of Holohory forms a steep incline with relative heights of up to 100 meters above the adjoining Little Polesia plain. The southern slopes, meanwhile, are more gentle and gradually transit into the hills of Peremyshliany plateau (Horbohirya).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gologory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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