Subject: Re: Old tripoint, now in Poland
Date: Mar 23, 2004 @ 14:32
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
wrote:
> --- 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


That looks like the Vistula to me...

> &
> http://historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/natmapbalt1563.htm

Yes, that one shows the tripoint.

Peter S.