(Cyprus), Nicosia is in Europe not Asia.
Alex LIVINGSTON
alex at agsm.edu.au
Tue Sep 12 22:35:30 UTC 2000
At 13:13 -0400 2000-09-12, Gwillim Law wrote:
>I looked in a few handy reference books. In Merriam Webster's Geographical
>Dictionary, Third Edition (1997), under "Asia", I found: "Boundaries: ...
>(4) On W, Red Sea, Isthmus of Suez, ...; chief island Cyprus." Cyprus is
>not mentioned in the "Europe" article. Rand McNally's Atlas of the World,
>Millenium Edition (1999) has Cyprus colored in on the political map of Asia,
>but not of Europe. The National Geographic Atlas of the World and the
>Encyclopedia Britannica World Atlas both have lists of countries organized
>by continent. In both of them, Cyprus is listed in Asia, not Europe. The
>Columbia Encyclopedia's article on Asia says, "The conventional boundary
>with Europe--which may be said geographically to be a peninsula of the
>Eurasian land mass--lies approximately along the Ural mts., the Ural river,
>and the Caspian Sea. Thus defined, Asia, including Ceylon but excluding the
>islands of Japan, ...". I didn't find any reference books that place Ceylon
>in Europe.
I note that _all_ of the references cited are US publications.
--Alex
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