Jan. Very interesting statistics - but which one (as asked in original
question) had a university? We may be dealing here, of course, with
'artistic licence' rather than 'reality'.
Francis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Smits [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 03 March 1999 07:36
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> Subject: Re: Place name in 1805
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> Dear Ann,
>
> As Turkey around 1805 encompassed a rather large area as the Ottoman
> empire I looked into the Sthetl-Seeker and came up with the following
> possibilities:
>
> HASAN - N 41 29 /E 19 42 - Albania - 12.4 miles NNW of Tirane
> HASANI - N 44 50 /E 16 21 - Bosnia and Herzegovina - 123.2 miles NW of
> Sarajevo
> HASANI (ARYIROUPOLIS) - N 37 54 /E 23 45 - Greece - 5.8 miles S of Athens
> HAZANE (AZANE) - N 42 57 /E 19 57 - Montenegro - 132.9 miles SSW of
> Belgrade
>
> There were phonetically, however, 1,158 matches of this toponym in
> Central- and Eastern Europe.
>
> Jan
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