Oxford Announces the 2008 Place of the Year

NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Oxford University Press:

KOSOVO:

Coordinates: 42 30 N 21 0 E

Population: Approximately 2 million

Every year our maps are revised to keep up with the shifting geographies of the world. So when a new nation declares its independence, and other countries refuse to acknowledge its sovereignty, cartographers must figure out the best way to respond -- which is one reason whyKosovo is Oxford's 2008 Place of the Year.

On February 18, 2008,Kosovo, a former Yugoslav state, declared its independence from Serbia a decade after the start of a violent separatist war that cost 10,000 lives. While many nations includingthe United States were quick to recognizeKosovo as an independent nation, others such as Serbia,Russia, andSpain, have refused to accept it.

Cartographers continue to monitorKosovo, as its political, social, and physical boundaries are at stake: Will the ethnic Serbs living in northernKosovo find acceptance in this new county? Will the government of President Fatmir Sejdiu gain admission into the European Union? And, will these boundaries remain, or will they once again be altered by events in the future?

                             ATLAS OF THE WORLD
            was published, in hardcover,  by Oxford University Press
                            on November 13, 2008
               ($80.00 | 448 pages | Fifteenth Edition| 11 x 15 |
                         Full color maps throughout
                            ISBN: 9780195374513).

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SOURCE Oxford University Press

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