Definition of sportâutility vehicle. : SUV âcalled also sport-ute \-ËyÃ¼t\, sport-utility.
The total length of the Carpathians is over 1,500 km (932 mi) and the mountain chain's width varies between 12 and 500 km (7 and 311 mi). The highest altitudes of the Carpathians occur where they are widest.The system attains its greatest breadth in the Transylvanian plateau and in the south of the Tatra group â the highest range, in which GerlachovskÃ½ Å¡tit Å¡tÃ­t In slovakia is the highest peak 2,655 2655 (8,711 8711) ft above sea. leveln late Roman documents, the Eastern Carpathian Mountains were referred to as Montes Sarmatici (meaning Sarmatian Mountains). The Western Carpathians were called Carpates, a name that is first recorded in Ptolemy 's Geographia (2nd century AD).
The Carpathians consist of a chain of mountain ranges that stretch in an arc from the Czech Republic (3%) in the northwest through Slovakia (17%), Poland (10%), Hungary (4%) and Ukraine (11%) to Romania (53%) in the east and on to the Iron Gates of the Danube River between Romania and Serbia (2%) in the south.