ultramontane

adj 1: on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples

beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps);

"ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the

Alps and included modern France and Belgium"; "Cracow

was a transalpine university" [syn: {transalpine}]

2: on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps; "ancient cisalpine

Gaul included an area south and east of the Alps" [syn: {cisalpine}]