Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Smallest cantonal enclave in Switzerland
Date: Mar 08, 2001 @ 21:25
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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no reason not to discuss anything that appeals strongly to anyone here

we are all equally arrant bounders
arent we

m


actually to be fair we yanks
led by arif
have been talking tertiary & even quaternary for some time now
both about our claves & our megapoints

>
>Or at least, that's what it says in
><http://www.rva.ch/archiv/990721.html>
>http://www.rva.ch/archiv/990721.html . It is the monastery
>Grimmenstein, which is an enclave of Appenzell-Innerrhoden within
>Appenzell-Ausserrhoden. The surface is 2800 sq. m. The enclave was
>formed as a result of the reformation, when protestant and catholic
>Swiss got rather unpleasant towards each other, and lots of cantonal
>boundaries were formed. The Federal Parliament made the monastery an
>enclave in 1870.
>
>If we are going to discuss secundary level-enclaves (i.e. provinces
>etc.), then Switzerland is a good country. It is absolutely enclave-
>ridden.
>
>But we were already discussing these in the U.S. So why not in
>Europe...
>
>Peter S.
>
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