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Graustark is a fictional country in Eastern Europe used as a setting for several novels by George Barr McCutcheon. Graustark's neighbors, which also figure in the stories, are Axphain to the north and Dawsbergen to the south.
Graustark is described as a mountainous country with an area of approximately ; there is at least one reference in the books that fixes its location as somewhere in the Carpathian Mountains near Romania. On the other hand, in Graustark it is said to be threatened with reduction to being only 25 miles wide by 150 miles long (3750 square miles) and in Truxton King is said to provide a shorter rail route to Russian territories in or near Afghanistan. Graustark's capital city, Edelweiss, is accessible by train from Vienna. The mountain town of Ganlook is near the border with Axphain, Graustark's traditional enemy. Graustark is ruled as a principality and its unit of currency is called the gavvo, worth $1.40 at the time of the novel Truxton King. Graustarkian is the native language of the people, although American English is universally spoken among the educated classes and is the everyday language of the royal family and court.
Graustark (1963–1988) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was a favorite to win the 1966 Kentucky Derby until an injury prematurely ended his career.
Graustark is a 1915 American silent drama-adventure film produced by the Essanay Studios. It is based on the novel Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon. The film starred romantic team Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne and proved one of their most popular vehicles. Fred E. Wright directed the film which is survives.
The film was remade by Fox in 1923 under the title Truxton King with John Gilbert and in 1925 as Graustark with Norma Talmadge.
Usage examples of "graustark".
I have it on good authority that the Sultan of Graustark himself has authorized his agents to go that high for me.
Latin America and the Caribbean was given over to Romance, with Graustark contending against the Norstro-Huguenot Empire.
Urbania four months ago when the touring Graustark National Ballet Company went bankrupt.
Amber Graustark, author of the seventeen-volume De Toqueville saga, which traced that fictitious and doom-laden family from medieval England to nineteenth-century Mexico.
Yes, the grand old McWhipple Estate on beautiful New Graustark is once again on the market.
Mother has shelves of books like that Graustark, The Scarlet Pimpernel.