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Subject: RE: [Fwd: Kurdistan maps]
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:44:52 -0600
From: macmap <[log in to unmask]>
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Well, there is room in the G schedules for a new country before and
after Iraq
within the number range. But for now I would put it under Near East:
G7421.F1
YEAR .XX (3 or more counties & .F1 for national aspirations) Ok, now
that I
have it analyzed and classified it--I just need someone to go get me the
map:)
Best wishes,
Scott R. McEathron
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>Subject: Kurdistan maps
>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:37:30 -0500
>From: "ahudson" <[log in to unmask]>
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>In an article in The New York Times, January 22, 2003, p. 1, and A8,
>about
>dreams for a Kurdish State, several illustrations in the article showed
>maps of Kurdistan. The article starts out with,
>
> 'A common and curious sight in northern Iraq is a glossy color map
>about
>the size of a doormat on display in many homes and on sale in every
>bazaar.
>The map defines a territory beginning at the northeastern corner of the
>Mediterranean Sea and extending east,north and south, ending more than
>200
>miles inside Iran. Its name is "Kurdistan," the limits of a land claim
>spanning large parts of four nations. It is also the name of a fifth
>nation, which does not exist.'
>
>My question is whether this map, "for sale in every bazaar in northern
>Iraq," is available in any way from some of our whizbang map dealers?
>Yes, numerous variants are on the Web...and we have printed many off and
>even set up a folder for Kurdistan, for the historical record. I am
>interested in the map for sale in Iraq.
>
>ps: if maps of Kurdistan are cataloged, how are they handled
>geographically, qualitatively [fantasy maps?]...
>
>Any ideas out there?
>
>Alice C. Hudson
>Chief, Map Division
>The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
>The New York Public Library
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>New York, NY 10018-2788
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> under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
> - Nelson
>Henderson
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Scott R. McEathron
Map and Geography Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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