Subject: Re: Old tripoint, now in Poland
Date: Mar 23, 2004 @ 15:21
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> --- 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.

so the 1550 map could be wrong or incomplete
& we could really be looking at
at least
1545deltpl1563

but is that the extent of it
or does it stretch still farther across time