Subject: 22nd Belgian enclave<br/>
Date: Jul 01, 2005 @ 00:10<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-875617536"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;International Herald Tribune<br/>
&gt;Thursday, November 2, 1995<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Belgium is a bit larger today, at the Netherlands&#39; expense. A meadow<br/>
&gt;smaller than a soccer field, on the edge of the Belgian enclave of<br/>
&gt;Baarle-Duc, was handed over to Belgium this week after surveyors<br/>
&gt;discovered a 150-year-old error. Baarle-Duc has been an enclave, just<br/>
&gt;north of Belgium, since the Maastricht Treaty of 1843, which<br/>
&gt;provisionally drew the border after Belgium seceded. ...<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>It wasn&#39;t an &#39;error&#39;, it was known since the 1830s that a third of the <br/>
field was Belgian, but not which third...<br/>
And the enclave had been international since 1648, and feudal from 1198 <br/>
until then.<br/>
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Brendan</div>