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Definition of: Simplon Pass
(sim′plon, Fr. sa
·plô′)
A pass over the Alps in SW Switzerland; elevation, 6,592 feet; traversed by a road built (1800–06) by Napoleon near the Simplon Tunnel (1906), 12 1/4 miles, the longest in the world.
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