Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: border markers France-Spain
Date: Jan 19, 2001 @ 04:43
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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>From: "mick donner" <m@...>_________________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: border markers France-Spain
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:45:33 -0000
>
>great
>thanx
>also can you tell if the 1659 & later treaties & inventories include
>or ignore the 1375 stone & earlier stones
>
>i ask because i believe this boundary actually dates from the late
>1200s & may be the oldest in the world
>& i wonder if it is recognized as such
>& if the 600 marks from the 19th century are all new or cumulative
>
>m
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...>
>wrote:
> > Each of the three sections of the border demarcated was the result
>of 2
> > treaties, one on methods and the second giving the actual monument
>location
> > description. Thus the 2nd and third treaties in the 1860s should
>tell you
> > where the Andorran tripoints are.
> > Brendan
> >
> >
> > >From: "mick donner" <m@...>
> > >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
> > >To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
> > >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: border markers France-Spain
> > >Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:44:20 -0000
> > >
> > >is there any info here about the andorra tripoints
> > >
> > >m
> > >
> > >--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...>
> > >wrote:
> > > > After researching the case of Llivia, I can field this one:
> > > > After the Treaty of the Pyrenees defined the boundary between
>France
> > >and
> > > > Spain in 1659, the border was definitively demarcated on the
>ground
> > >as the
> > > > result of three treaties in the 1860s. The first started at
>Bidossa
> > >and went
> > > > east, the markers being numbered fomr #1 at that end. The second
> > >treaty
> > > > contined on to Andorra, continuing the numbering, and the third
>form
> > >andorra
> > > > past Llivia (with 42 separately numbered markers) to the
> > >Mediterranean
> > > > (#600).
> > > > The treaties with their descriptions of the border line and the
> > >positions of
> > > > the markers are available in Parry's 140+ volume
>set "Consolidated
> > >Treaty
> > > > Series".
> > > > The markers themselves should be shown and numbered on either
>of the
> > >French
> > > > 1:25000 map series, Topo25 or Series Bleu.
> > > >
> > > > Brendan Whyte
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >From: "Eef Berns" <eefberns@d...>
> > > > >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
> > > > >To: <boundarypoint@egroups.com>
> > > > >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] border markers France-Spain
> > > > >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:28:06 +0100
> > > > >
> > > > >I did a lot of walking in the Pyrenees, following the long
>distance
> > >-coast
> > > > >to coast- path GR10. There's a line of border markers on the
> > >mountain
> > > > >ridges. I photographed some of them while passing. According
>to an
> > >French
> > > > >article I found by accidence, there are 600 numbered border
> > >markers. A
> > > > >question about these markers in French usenet-newsgroups led to
> > >nothing.
> > > > >Does anyone of you know more about it?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >vriendelijke groet,
> > > > >
> > > > >Eef Berns
> > > > >
> > > > >-----------------------
> > > > >website:
> > > > >- de grenspalen van Nederland (the border markers of the
> > >Netherlands):
> > > > >http://huizen.dds.nl/~eefberns
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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