Maps, Greece and History By Jason C. Mavrovitis We wandered from
shop to shop, stopping at a window display of photographs,
autographs, documents and letters of the Confederacy, and other
Civil War memorabilia. The shop was apparently one of several
owned by a chain of stores named Antiquities. The material
exhibited was interesting, so we went in to look around. In the
back of the store was an area with maps both on the walls, and
in vertical stacks in the room's center. Most of the maps were
of the Confederacy, and its states and cities. Sprinkled among
these were a few maps of Europe, the middle-east, Africa, and
other regions. As I looked through the vertical stacks I came
across the map shown above : Map of Turkey in Europe together
with the Ionian Islands, published in 1850. It intrigued me. I
searched the map for the city of Kastoria to no avail. Kastoria
is located in the mountainous Macedonian region west of
Thessaloniki and was still, in 1850, part of Turkey. My father
was born in a small village na