Subject: Baarle - Border rectification
Date: Jun 30, 2005 @ 03:18
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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Anyone see this before?
LN
International Herald Tribune
Thursday, November 2, 1995
Belgium is a bit larger today, at the Netherlands' expense. A meadow
smaller than a soccer field, on the edge of the Belgian enclave of
Baarle-Duc, was handed over to Belgium this week after surveyors
discovered a 150-year-old error. Baarle-Duc has been an enclave, just
north of Belgium, since the Maastricht Treaty of 1843, which
provisionally drew the border after Belgium seceded. Baarle-Duc's
2,000 inhabitants rub shoulders with the Dutch inhabitants of
Baarle-Nassau; the frontier runs through stores, homes and cafés.
House numbers have little national flags to indicate in which country
the inhabitant lives. Belgium's takeover of the meadow was said to
have been a friendly one.