Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] tp belgium germany holland aka bedenl
Date: Oct 18, 2000 @ 20:03
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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thank you brendan

these are the data i wanted

fantastic

m


>
>Actually it was a quadripoint from 1815-1918.
>Moresnet was in dispute between Prussia and Holland afteer the Congress of
>Vienna and so became a neutral zone between them (it contianed a valuable
>zinc mine).
>In 1830 Belgium became indep, and Moresnet became a Belg/Prussian neutral
>zone, but still connected to Netherlands by a single point.
>1918 treaty of Versailles, Belgium was awarded Eupen in Prussia (to be
>affirmed by a 'plebiscite'in 1920) and so apart fomr the point, Moresnet was
>now totally surrounded by Belgium (still it met Neth and Germany at the
>point), so it was given to Belgium too.
>In 1977 Moresnet commune was amalgamated with nearby commeunes, so the shape
>of it has changed only recently. 1815-1977 it existed as an international
>entity or a commune (called Kelmis by the Belgians).
>Brendan
>
>
>>From: michael donner <m@...>
>>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>>To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] tp belgium germany holland aka bedenl
>>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:32:31 -0400
>>
>>the present bedenl point was between 1919 & 1922 actually a
>> >trinational quadripoint with a binational bede neutral zone
>> >& the conjunction as a whole was therefore topologically identical to the
>> >other suspected similarly defunct example which arif is on the track of
>>at
>> >present day tp iraq kuwait saudi arabia
>>
>>& if you zoom in on bedenl at mapquest
>>you will see a municipal boundary also converging upon it from the ssw
>>which in fact formerly separated the bede neutral zone from belgium
>>& thus for a few years promoted this tp into a trinational quadripoint
>>
>>m