Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fragments<br/>
Date: Jan 07, 2001 @ 23:40<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-261179778">This is the subject of an unpublished paper of mine:<br/>
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A fragment is any discontinuous/discontiguous part of a territorial unit <br/>
(county/ state/ country/ supranational entity.<br/>
<br/>
Thus Greece is a fragment of the EU, Alaska and Hawaii of the US and Santa <br/>
Catalina of California. It can be an island or just a piece of territory <br/>
separated because another is in the way (ie Alaska).<br/>
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Fragments can be subdivided into different classes:<br/>
enclaves are one of those.<br/>
An enclave is a piece of territory 100% surrounded by one other territory.<br/>
Thus it has one neighbour and no coast.<br/>
Alaska on the other hand has one neighbour and a coast<br/>
Kaliningrad has 2 neighbours and a coast<br/>
Nakhichevan (part of Azerbaijan) has 3 neighbours and no coast.<br/>
<br/>
I personally find no point in distinguishing enclave and exclavce at Catudal <br/>
and robinson do, as the terms are ambiguous when qualified.<br/>
&quot;French enclave&quot; can mean a foreign thing in France or a French thing in <br/>
someone else. Thus when tlaking about Llivia, it can be called a &quot;French <br/>
enclave&quot;, &quot;Spanish enclave&quot;, &quot;French exclave&quot; and &quot;Spanish exclave&quot;which is <br/>
clearly confusing, ambiguous and redundant.<br/>
While I would like to use the terms for different things, redefining <br/>
osmething like that is too tricky given how sloppy most people are with <br/>
&#39;enclave&#39; today.<br/>
Further, the german word for enclave is exklave, so we may as well treat <br/>
them as synonyms and be done with it.<br/>
<br/>
Brendan<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;From: &quot;Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:jesniel@...">jesniel@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Reply-To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@egroups.com">BoundaryPoint@egroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;To: &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@egroups.com">BoundaryPoint@egroups.com</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Fragments<br/>
&gt;Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:41:34 +0100<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Will anybody please define fragtments again vs. enclaves and exclaves!<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Jesper<br/>
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