Subject: In between tri and quadri<br/>
Date: Nov 06, 2004 @ 08:41<br/>
Author: Wolfgang Schaub (&quot;Wolfgang Schaub&quot; &lt;Wolfgang.Schaub@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-995533586">Has anybody of you cast an eye on the Vaalserberg already? Netherland&#39;s<br/>
highest mountain and - today - a tripoint: BEDENL.<br/>
<br/>
Historically, it started as something between a simple borderline and a<br/>
tripoint, and this was in 1816, when the hybrid state of Neutral-Moresnet<br/>
was founded. So we had NL/Prussia/Neutra-Moresnet then on top of the<br/>
Vaalserberg.<br/>
<br/>
Neutral-Moresnet was co-governed by Prussia and the Netherlands. So actually<br/>
we can take this hybrid only half seriously. Which means, our tripoint was<br/>
in fact perhaps only a 2 1/2-point.<br/>
<br/>
1830 Belgium was created. Our tripont (or 2 1/2 if you will) promoted to a<br/>
quadripont (or 3 1/2 ?). Neutral-Moresnet was then co-governed by Belgium<br/>
and Prussia.<br/>
<br/>
1870 we see Prussia disappear in the German Reich. So our quadripoint was<br/>
then BE/DE/NL/Neutral-Moresnet, but did not change its &quot;value&quot;.<br/>
<br/>
1914 Neutral-Moresnet was annexed to the Reich, but this - due to the war -<br/>
was never acknowledged by anybody. Our almost-quadripoint degenerated to a<br/>
mere tripoint BE/DE/NL - or was it still 3 1/2?<br/>
<br/>
Finally, in 1919, the Versailles treaty abolished Neutral-Moresnet and gave<br/>
it Belgium. So Vaalserberg has become a true tripoint.<br/>
<br/>
What do our scientists say? Is it too complicated for you? So sorry.<br/>
<br/>
I just would be interested if science knows anything about points in a<br/>
continuum. Normally our points jump in quantum leaps.<br/>
<br/>
Wolfgang</div>