Subject: Re: enclaves on stamps
Date: Sep 22, 2004 @ 02:18
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> With the Anschluß of Austria by Germany, Jungholzdisappeared as the
> two countries became one; and then, after WWII, it reappeared.Now
> don't go splitting hairs about it being "only" a pene-. I know, I<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> know, I know.
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> LN
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
> > <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> >
> > > > it is unlikely that defunct claves would ever be deliberately
> > > > reconstituted if it could be avoided
> > > >
> > > > rather the general drift is almost entirely in the opposite
> > > direction
> >
> > > Baarle-Hertog was once just a set of
> > > provincial enclaves. But they reconstituted those as
> > international
> > > ones when Belgium became independent.
> >
> > thats true
> > tho what i meant by reconstituted
> > is not just continued in a new format
> > for that seems common enough
> > but actually brought back from extinction
> >
> > & i cant think of a single instance of this at the moment
> >
> > can anyone