cant answer the question but it reminds me
from what you reveal below
it seems the municipalities of the brussels region are technically on the
same level as the provinces of the other 2 belgian regions
or put differently the municipalities of the brussels region are tertiary
entities while all the other belgian municipalities are quaternary ones
or in still other words belgium is not all there
m
but actually i have found that partial structural gaps like this are fairly
common
& moreover if you dig deeply & broadly enough
you will find that practically everywhere is not all there on some level
& that just about everywhere ultimately fades off into a crazy mix of
partial or missing layers
while we are searching the world for extremes
i wonder what is the numerically highest or actually deepest level of
subdivision & therefore of boundaries on earth
for example
i have an old map of my home town i would say shows quintenary divisions
following the levels of country & state & county & municipality
namely our ghost school districts as they existed before consolidation
& i suppose that the private landholdings within these districts at that
time would have been sextenary divisions
nor do i imagine the sextenary level would be hard to surpass
especially in a big city with wards & districts & condo apartments etc
but i just wonder how far out or up or down this process could be taken
or rather how far it has actually been taken somewhere
& where that somewhere is
m
>
>Brendan Whyte wrote:
>
>> >If you accept the above argument, the only islands which would meet
>> >Brendan's strict definition of an enclave
>>
>> ...AT SEA...
>>
>> >would be those whose
>> >territorial sea is totally surrounded by the territorial sea of
>> >another state - and, as yet, I have been unable to think of any....
>>
>> Thanks Martin.
>>
>> Enclaves are most useful when considered for areas of equal/similar
>> sovereignty, ie EITHER internal units OR nations, OR EEZs/Highseas, etc.
>> Thus we can think of high seas enclaves in EEZs or EEZs inside other EEZs
>> (ie St Pierre, Channel Islands, Monaco) or national level enclaves in
>> nations, but enclaves at one level bordering on a unit of higher level of
>> sovereignty are less interesting as they have fewer practical implications.
>> Hence less interest in the 2 or 3 Belgian provincial fragments that adjoin
>> its neighbouring nations.
>
>There are two exclaves (I would say)/fragments (you would say) I know of:
>the municipality of Voeren
>and the municipality of Comines-Warneton. They are not only provincial,
>but also regional. This is
>one level up. Belgium is a federal state, divided into three regions. Two
>of them are divided into
>provinces, and these into municipalities. The third region, Brussels,
>lacks the province layer and
>is directly divided into (19) municipalities.
>The third provincial 'fragclave' was Sugny (province of Luxembourg, but
>surrounded by province of
>Namur and France) was abolished on 1-1-1977, in the giant Belgian
>municipal reshuffle that took
>place.
>
>On the subject of claves of a lower order (e.g. municipalities): In
>Brussels, the municipality of
>Elsene/Ixelles is cut in two by Brussels (the Louizalaan/Avenue Louise
>area). On older maps, the
>same goes for the municipality of St. Gillis/St. Gilles. On newer maps,
>the small part east of the
>Louizalaan, at the Little Ring, is absent. Does it still exist? Or has it
>been added to either
>Brussels or Elsene/Ixelles?
>
>Peter S.
>
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