Wolfgang: yes precisely!  I should have mentioned that, but forgot to do it. Talk about a place with a variety of history: and also of course the city was capital of the empire for like two centuries though not at the time MT might have visited!  I guess he would call it Pressburg being in Vienna?  Thanks for reminding me...

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From: Wolfgang Hochbruck <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 11:30 PM
To: Mark Twain Forum; Hal Bush
Subject: Re: Was Twain in Pakistan? Slovakia/ Bratislava??

...note that Bratislawa would then have been called Pressburg (Austrian
German) or Sopron (Hungarian) ...

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Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Italy & Palestine (not Israel) -- which also brings up the question of
>what country a place was when MT visited it, vs. what it is called
>today.
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>ps & additional question: did Twain ever venture over to Slovakia/
>Bratislava during his time in Vienna (it's not far, like 40 miles)??
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>It's been a while since I read it, but Carl Dolmetsch wrote a very
>good book about MT's Vienna years, called Our Famous Guest, and if I
>had it handy I could just check the index....
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>When Twain visited India in 1896, was he ever in the region which is
>now Pakistan?
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>AFAIK, these are the countries Twain visited:
>Canada
>Australia
>Tasmania
>New Zealand
>Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
>India
>South Africa
>England
>Scotland
>Germany
>Austria
>Switzerland
>France
>Sweden
>Turkey
>Greece
>Israel
>Egypt
>Syria
>Lebanon
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>Which am I missing?
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