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Users of Neo-Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of mountains that did not exist when Latin was a living language.


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LatinEnglish name, name(s) , name(s) , [nation or state , [continent]
Aegaleus¹Mount Aegaleus , Piraeus , Greece
Aenos Mount Ainos , Kefallinia /Cephallonia, Greece
Aetna¹ Mount Etna , Sicily
Albus, Mons Mont Blanc , France and Italy
Alpis (ranges) Alps , France to Austria
Alpis Australia? Australian Alps , New South Wales
Andes (ranges) Andes , Chile to Colombia
Aroania¹Mount Aroania / Chelmos , Greece
Atlas¹ (ranges) Atlas Mountains , NW Africa
Caucasus Caucasus mountains, Georgia to Azerbaijan
Cyllene¹Mount Cyllene , Kylléne
Dalmatia (Alpis) Dalmatian Mountains , Damlatia , S Croatia , West Balkans
Dirphys¹Mount Dirphys , Greece
ElbrusMount Elbrus , Caucasus
Erymanthus¹Mount Erymanthus (Olonos)
Eryx Monte San Giuliano , Sicily
Helicon¹Mount Helicon , Greece
Herminius Mons Serra Da Estrela , Portugal
Hymettus¹Mount Hymettus , Greece
Minthe¹Mount Minthe , Ilia , Greece
Oenoe¹Mount Oenoe , Greece
Olympicus (montes) Olympic Mountains , Washington
Olympus Mons¹ (Asia Minor)Mount Olympus, W Turkey
Olympus Mons¹ (Cyprus)Mount Olympus, Cyprus
Olympus Mons¹ Mount Olympus , Greece
Olympus Mons¹ (N. Zelandia)Mount Olympus, New Zealand
Olympus Mons¹ (Tenn.)Mount Olympus, Tennessee
Olympus Mons¹ (UT)Mount Olympus, Utah
Olympus Mons¹ (Vasingtonia, Olympicus) Mount Olympus , Washington
Ossa¹Mount Ossa , Thessaly , Greece
Ossa (Tasmania)Mount Ossa, Tasmania
Parnassus¹Mount Parnassus , Greece
Pentele¹ Pentele
Pholoe¹Mount Pholoe , Greece
Pindus¹Pindus, Pindos
Parnetha¹Mount Parnetha , Parnitha , Greece
Regius (Mons) Mount Royal , Quebec
Rhodope¹ Rhodope
Scollis¹Mount Scollis , Greece
Taurus¹ (ranges) Taurus Mountains , S Turkey
Taygetus¹Mount Taygetus , Taygetos
Transylvania Transylvania , N Romania
VerginaMount Vergina , Greece
VesuviusMount Vesuvius , Italy


# Latinized form of a Greek-derived mountain name


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