I'll let others address the European issues, but I will speak to Alexandria.
The town's first government was set up under a Virginia colonial act in 1749.
It became the seat of Fairfax County in 1752 and would remain so until 1801.
Alexandria received a new corporate charter from the Commonwealth of Virginia in
1779. Until the cession of land from Virginia for the District of Columbia
(effective 1801), Alexandria's bounds never extended beyond that part of
Virginia that would become part of the DC. The County of Alexandria was
organized under the DC to govern all of the former Virginia lands. The
retrocession to Virginia of that portion of the DC on the southwest bank of the
Potomac River was in 1847. Alexandria County remained as such under Virginia
jurisdiction. In 1852, the Commonwealth chartered the City of Alexandria in the
non-rural southern part of Alexandria County. In 1870, this city was given
independent city status, meaning that it was part of no county. The remainder
of Alexandria County retained that name until it was changed to Arlington County
in 1920. In 1930, the City of Alexandria assimilated the Town of Potomac from
Arlington County, and in 1952, it annexed land westward that had formerly been
in Fairfax County. These additions to the independent City of Alexandria
reduced Arlington and Fairfax Counties, respectively.
So, although there is a considerable history of territorial swapping, there was
apparently never any interjurisdictional municipality (à la Lloydminster) in
this region.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>
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Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Interprovincial municipality, ABSK
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> > Does anyone know of any other interjurisdictional municipality
> anywhere else on
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> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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> It might take a little research to determine if this fits, but
> Alexandria VA a possible candidate. Part of it was formerly within
> the District of Columbia, but got put back into VA in the mid 1800s
> when Arlington county was founded. Thus, part of Alexandria may have
> been in Arlington County. I waffle on that, because I'm not certain
> when Alexandria incorporated or if Arlington county ended at the
> portion of the Alexandria city limits that was formerly within the
> District. The part of Alexandria that was never within the District
> lies in Fairfax county, but I'm not certain if the portion of
> Alexandria that lies within Fairfax county was ever incorporated or if
> that incorporation made Fairfax county smaller by removing that
> portion of Alexandria from the county territory. In any event,
> Alexandria is a town lying across the border of two county areas that
> used to formerly lie across the boundary between the District and VA.
> It may be that the organized part of the city is only that part lying
> in what was the District and that the mayor has no jurisdiction over
> that part of town that lies within Fairfax county.
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> Another candidate might be one we discussed earlier at great length -
> Bremerhaven, a part of which contains territory of Bremen. If the
> city of Bremerhaven and the Burgermeister of Bremerhaven administers
> that part of Bremen which is in the Bremerhaven harbor, then we would
> have a similar situation to that which exists in Canada, not covering
> the whole town, but a detached part of Bremen.
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> Then, not to be forgotten are Riezlern and Jungholz, Austria which are
> towns administering what is as close to international shared
> sovereignty as one can get without a condominium, between Germany and
> Austria, at least for certain purposes (postal, customs & fiscal).
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