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... Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ 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) ... w On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 01:32:39 +0000 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. > > >ps & additional question: did Twain ever venture over to Slovakia/ >Bratislava during his time in Vienna (it's not far, like 40 miles)?? > > >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.... > > > > >Dr. Hal Bush > >Dept. of English > >Saint Louis University > >[log in to unmask] > >314-977-3616 > >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__halbush.com&d=DwIDaQ&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=Vm4EniPHDefodxmypnmkMA&m=8SEOqui9wM86HUG0vWZn9RY861zV-kSPt8P31EuaOmM&s=qe1HkWi88tTahdRpRz6hbOfgoWUD4aY_vfMt3_3nX6w&e= > >author website: halbush.com > >________________________________ >From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Clay Shannon ><[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 7:33:02 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Was Twain in Pakistan? > >When Twain visited India in 1896, was he ever in the region which is >now Pakistan? > >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 > >Which am I missing? > >-- B. Clay Shannon >[log in to unmask] Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck Dept. of English Centre for Security and Society Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg Rempart St. 15 D-79098 Freiburg Germany