----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Colleagues: This was too good to keep to myself. I have just catalogued for the British Library Map Library a map donated to the library. It was published in 1965 by the Mjeteve Mesimore Kulture e Sportive "Hamid Shijaku," which is the government mapping agency of Albania. The map is called "Lufta civile ne Sh.B.A. 1861-1865" and shows military movements and battle sites of the American Civil War. It's on two sheets, and looks like it was meant to be joined and hung on a wall. Among the important cities shown on the map (in Albanian, of course) are (with their states, which I'll add in English): Uashington (DC) Luisvill (Kentucky) Xheferson-Siti (Missouri) De-Mojn (Iowa) Roli (North Carolina) Ollbani (New York) Baton-Ruzh (Louisiana) Apomatox (Virginia) Hejnsvill (Florida) Trenton (New Jersey){as a Jersey girl, I was glad to see that there was nothing they could do to that name!} It's fascinating to wonder why the Albanian government published a map of the American Civil War to be used in its schools, and interesting to note the map was published in the hundredth anniversary year of the end of the war. Just a little summer fun. ********************************************************************** April Carlucci [log in to unmask] The British Library Voice +44 171 412 7000x4167 Map Library +44 171 412 7703 Great Russell Street Fax +44 171 412 7780 London WC1B 3DG United Kingdom "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" **********************************************************************