Dear Ann
Try the following website
http://gnpswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
I had a look for VAU and it came up with about 4 matches.
Happy hunting
Paul Tickner
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Dear Colleagues,
I have checked in the several gazetteers and cannot find the following. Can
anyone help?
A Church of Scotland Mission at HASSKEIN
and an American Mission at VAU
Both are in Turkey pre 1914.
Thanks
Ann
Ann Sutherland
Map Librarian,
Edinburgh University Library
43 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ
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either to say that he has found it, or that it is not to be found,
or that he is yet upon the quest" Montaigne
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