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Yes Sean, there is a Borgo Pass:
Birgaului, Pasul (pass) 47 deg 16 min N by 25 deg by 1 min E in Romania.
(Spelling with diacritics is: Bi(circumflex)rga(breve)ului)
Variants: Bargau, Pasul; Bargaului, Pasul; Borge Pass; Borgo Pass
(Spelling with diacritics: Ba(circumflex)ga(breve)u;
Ba(circumflex)ga(breve)ului)
Also Bistritz is:
Bistrita (populated place) 47 deg 8 min N by 24 deg 29 min E in Romania
(Spelling with diacritics is: Bistrit(cedilla)a
Variants: Bistritz, Besztercze
The first name should be the correct Romanian name in both cases. The
variants could be former names, spelling variations, or based on minority
languages. Borgo and Borge appear to be English exonyms but neither is
coded as accepted for current usage.
Have fun,
Ed Taylor
GEOname Digital Gazetteer, GDE Systems, Inc.
Home Page: http://www.gdesystems.com
GEOname Page: http://www.gdesystems.com/IIS/SlipSheets/GEONAME.html
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Sean D. Smith wrote:
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> Dear MAPS-L subscribers:
> I am a cartographer in Vancouver with a special affinity for Dracula (and
> anything else vampiric). I had made a full colour map of Transylvania as a
> school project a few years back (at COGS in Nova Scotia), and one problem has
> bothered me ever since. In Dracula, a fictional novel, author Bram Stoker went
> to great lengths to make sure as much of his detail as possible was authentic,
> including the town of Bistritz (or Bistrici) where character Jonathon Harker
> passed through on his way to the Castle of Dracula. It is admitted that Stoker's
> Castle Dracula was fictional and only loosely based on any other real castle,
> but the location of said castle is given as the Borgo Pass, located in the
> Carpathian Mountains east of Bistritz. I did not, and still do not have access
> to any Romanian topographic maps that may show such a feature, and it certainly
> does not appear on any general purpose atlases. However, many authorities on
> Dracula have been making the unverified assumption that the Borgo Pass does
> indeed exist...I would like to settle the matter and either put it on the map
> (at least my own copy) or send a few letters to the "experts" if it is indeed
> fictional! Anyone interested in helping me out?
>
> Sean D. Smith
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