Subject: Baarle - Border rectification<br/>
Date: Jun 30, 2005 @ 03:18<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2020596396">Anyone see this before?<br/>
LN <br/>
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International Herald Tribune<br/>
Thursday, November 2, 1995<br/>
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Belgium is a bit larger today, at the Netherlands&#39; expense. A meadow<br/>
smaller than a soccer field, on the edge of the Belgian enclave of<br/>
Baarle-Duc, was handed over to Belgium this week after surveyors<br/>
discovered a 150-year-old error. Baarle-Duc has been an enclave, just<br/>
north of Belgium, since the Maastricht Treaty of 1843, which<br/>
provisionally drew the border after Belgium seceded. Baarle-Duc&#39;s<br/>
2,000 inhabitants rub shoulders with the Dutch inhabitants of<br/>
Baarle-Nassau; the frontier runs through stores, homes and cafés.<br/>
House numbers have little national flags to indicate in which country<br/>
the inhabitant lives. Belgium&#39;s takeover of the meadow was said to<br/>
have been a friendly one.</div>