Subject: Re: Old tripoint, now in Poland
Date: Mar 23, 2004 @ 14:17
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> A picture of an old tripoint marker in Poland, near the villages of
> Prostki and Bogusze (SE of E3k):
> http://www.castlesofpoland.com/prusy/elkdzis_po030.htm .
Acc. to the
> Google cache of www.biebrza.org.pl/pol/kult/hist.html , this is
an
> old tripoint marker (placed in 1545) on the tripoint of Mazovia
> (Poland), Prussia, and Lithuania. It served as a boundary
marker on
> the border between Poland-Lithuania, later Poland, and
Prussia, later
> Germany, until 1939 (excluding a certain period of course
when there
> was no Poland...).
>
> Peter S.

yesss
radical absolutist extremist fundamentalist trypointing
is back in town

& it looks like
perhaps
1545deltpl1549
approximately
if you will excuse the crude deltpl anachronism too
because this tripoint appears to move about in ensuing decades

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/europe/eu1550.gif
possibly where blue line in gray area hits orange outline
&
http://historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/natmapbalt1563.htm