Grant, soulmate,
I have procured a map of the Sultanate of Oman
(from www.omnimap.com, by the way), which, apart
from having Folding Instructions on the back side,
clearly shows the exclave of Madha as Omani
territory within UAE. It looks like you can leave
the main road and turn left into the exclave when
driving north from main-Oman to the Musandam-fragment.
On my map only the one town of Madha is shown
inside the exclave.
Robinson says on virtual exclaves: "Virtual exclaves
are areas treated as the exclaves of a country of
which they are not in the strictest legal sense an
integral part. By the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which
created the Vatican City State, certain lands and
buildings in and near Rome were declared extra-
territorial from the point of view of the Kingdom of
Italy. While these do not in law form part of the
Vatical City State, they function as if they did and
are effectively under Vatican administration."
Catudal cites Robinson, and mentions embassies as
possible virtual exclaves in addition to the Vatican
parcels, the Swiss airport of Basel, located in France
and the Soviet War Memorial in West-Berlin. He says:
"In the main, these areas represent the limited
exercise of jurisdiction of one state within foreign
territory."
Does this help at all?
Mats
> -----Original Message-----
> From: granthutchison@... [mailto:granthutchison@...]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 21:17
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Enclaves
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>
> Hi everyone:
> I'm new to this group, so please forgive my efforts to come up to
> speed. I've been interested in enclaves for the last ten years, ever
> since spending a *lot* of time driving around southern France looking
> for Llivia - the French really aren't keen to signpost it, are they?
> So: I stumbled across this rather fine eGroup while doing some
> research for an article about enclaves I'm preparing for a travel
> magazine - if only I'd known you guys were out here!
> I've worked my way through the archives, and I think I have a handle
> on "fragments" as opposed to true enclaves, but I'm still slightly
> bemused about "virtual" enclaves - ownership v. sovereignty -
> especially when applied to the various bits and pieces that make up
> the Vatican City State. Is the idea here that the Vatican _owns
> property_ in Italy, but these areas still pay Italian taxes and are
> subject to Italian law? Somehow I just can't see the Pope paying
> property tax on Castel Gandolfo ...
> I'm also interested to know what goes in the Madhi enclave -
> what sort
> of place is Madhi? It shows up on my maps as either a town in
> the UAE,
> or an empty Omani enclave.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Grant Hutchison
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