Peter S.,

that's a very interesting link about

the exchange of territory between

SK and CZ ! As a matter of fact, I

do have an article - in Danish - about

this village U Sabotu, where most

people were angry about the drawing

of the new boundary line after the

peaceful "divorce"...

So, it looks like things have been

settled to the satisfaction of the

local people there, but Peter :

where is Sidonie????

PS: I'll bring along this article

to Baarle in Sept. !!!

Regards

Peter H.

-------Original Message-------

From: Peter Smaardijk

Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:16:55

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Iron Curtian stories: Sidonie

After some searching, I found that the exchange of Sidonie/U Sabotu
took place on July 25, 1997:
http://www.fss.muni.cz/projekty/stisk/issues/stisk_10_98/ . In
English: http://www.rferl.org/newsline/1997/07/3-CEE/cee-280797.html .

So in my opinion, it would be strange to find the boundary still in
the middle of the village, in that small stream. Perhaps this chapter
3 is a bit old?

Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:

> In chapter 3, the story of Sidonie comes up, with the czsk

boundary

> running through the village. But then it looks like the

treaty of

> 1994 (see msg. 1665) was not executed, or this article

is older
than

> it says here (1999). Acc. to the news item

referred to in msg.
1665,

> the entire village was awarded to

the Czech rep.; Slovakia got the

> village U Sabotu. Still, not

having read the actual text of the

> treaty, nothing's for sure

here yet.

>
> On my map (1:100000 road atlas, 1997), I can't

make out whether the

> boundary follows the main road of the

village or the stream that
runs

> through the village. In both

cases the boundary does run straight

> through the village. The

main road crosses the stream a number of

> times (Sidonie is a long

village, along this stream, in a hilly,
not

> to say

mountainous, area).

>
> A couple of years ago I passed the

village by train here and was

> checked by border control officers

of both countries at the Vlarsky

> Prusmyk (Vlarsky with acute

accents on the vowels, Prusmyk with a

> small circle on top of the

u) railway station. If only I'd known

> then, I would have taken a

look there.

>
> Peter S.
>
> --- In

BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen"

>

<jesniel@i...> wrote:

> >

http://latimes.qpass.com/news/nation/reports/curtain/

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