Subject: Re: Ancient Finnish borders<br/>
Date: Sep 17, 2003 @ 22:09<br/>
Author: m06079 (&quot;m06079&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-310778869">dallen i think you are overstating this aspect<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; It is located in central eastern Finland, and was finally marked/engraved in 1767. What&#39;s especially remarkable is that fact that a very specific borderline was actually marked so early on. As you all know, in most of Europe during that period, borders were a fairly abstract notion and rarely demarcated.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>by 1767 many if not most boundaries in europe were already marked<br/>
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true <br/>
many of the boundaries have changed since then <br/>
so most working rocks are indeed younger than these<br/>
but boundaries were commonly marked even centuries earlier</div>