welcome oystein
nice finds
& the smaller ones are news to us here anyway
but for that reason & also just because they are so small
it seems likely that they are not the same sort of territorial
enclaves as busingen & campione are
but more likely enjoy a special extraterritorial status such as
embassies have
or else some other special but less than sovereign status
for we too have encountered a small handful of such special
cases in various places around the world
each having some specific unique purpose or circumstance
often ceremonial or symbolic but sometimes legal too
in the case of this russian parcel
i see there is a monument to general suvarov in gotthard pass
so perhaps just it & the surrounding plot of ground are accorded
some special honorary status for some historical reason
also
we have found that
as fine a resource as wikipedia usually is
we still cant take everything in it at face value
but you certainly have stirred up some curiosity about these finds
at least until they are fully identified & settled
& i am glad you found us too
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Øystein Hagerup"
<oysteinha@v...> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I came across some curiousities the other day while reading
the Wikipedia
> entry for Switzerland: ([ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland
> ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland)
>
> There I read:
> "Furthermore, three exclaves exist within Switzerland. The town
of
> Büsingen is territory of Germany, the town of Campione d'Italia
is
> territory of Italy and the about 24 m2 ground of the memorial to
General
> Suvorov's crossing of the Alps (1799) along the Gotthard road
are Russian
> territory. Switzerland itself holds a few m2 enclave in
Liechtenstein."
>
> These were unknown to me, and spurred a search for more
information. (In
> which I discoverend many intriguing things about enclaves,
borders - and
> this place.
>
> But I have still not come across any information on this
Liechtenstein
> situation, and not much to clear up this Suvorov situation
either. So I
> try here...
>
> Mvh
> Øystein Hagerup