Editing Carpathian Mountains (section)

===Historical names===

In late [[Roman Empire|Roman]] documents, the Eastern Carpathian Mountains were referred to as ''Montes Sarmatici'' (meaning [[Sarmatian]] Mountains).<ref>E.g. in work ''Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis, Asiana et Europiana, et de contentis in eis'' by [[Maciej Miechowita|Mathias de Miechow]], first edition from 1517. [https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost16/Miechow/mie_tr21.html Second book, chapter 1].</ref> The Western Carpathians were called ''Carpates'', a name that is first recorded in [[Ptolemy]]'s ''[[Geographia]]'' (second century AD).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=William |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=carpates-mons-geo |title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |year=1854 |location=London |publisher=Walton and Maberly |oclc=1060852129 |language=en}}</ref>

In the Scandinavian ''[[Hervarar saga]]'', which relates ancient Germanic legends about [[Hlöðskviða|battles]] between [[Goths]] and [[Huns]], the name ''Karpates'' appears in the predictable Germanic form as ''Harvaða fjöllum'' (see [[Grimm's law]]). "''Inter Alpes Huniae et Oceanum est Polonia''" ("Between the Hunic Alps and the ocean lies Poland") by [[Gervase of Tilbury]], was described in his ''Otia Imperialia'' ("Recreation for an Emperor") in 1211.<ref name=DNB/> Thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Hungarian documents named the mountains ''Thorchal'', ''Tarczal'', or less frequently ''Montes Nivium'' ("Snowy Mountains").<ref name=DNB>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Gervase of Tilbury}}</ref>

''Havasok'' ("Snowy Mountains") was its medieval [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] name. Russian chronicles referred to it as "Hungarian Mountains".{{sfn|Blazovich|1994|p=332}}{{sfn|Moldovanu|2010|p=18}} Later sources, such as [[Dimitrie Cantemir]] and the Italian chronicler Giovanandrea Gromo, referred to the range as "Transylvania's Mountains", while the 17th-century historian [[Constantin Cantacuzino (stolnic)|Constantin Cantacuzino]] translated the name of the mountains in an Italian-Romanian glossary to "Rumanian Mountains".{{sfn|Moldovanu|2010|p=18}}