Subject: Re: dutch provinces -&gt; oddities in terr. hierarchy<br/>
Date: Nov 05, 2001 @ 20:18<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1542008293">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I have just looked it up. It was on January 1, 1986, that Flevoland <br/>
&gt; came into existence.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Before that, the territory of the two Flevolands was known as the <br/>
Public Body of the Southern IJsselmeer polders (the Noordoostpolder <br/>
and the former islands of Urk and Schokland, of which Schokland was <br/>
already a part of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, were part of <br/>
the province of Overijssel back then). This territory was special in <br/>
this respect, that it didn&#39;t belong to any province. The territory <br/>
didn&#39;t belong to any municipality, either. Afterwards, municipalities <br/>
were formed (first Dronten, then Lelystad). The areas that weren&#39;t <br/>
divided in the normal way had a so-called Landdrost at the head of <br/>
the administration, instead of a mayor. This is comparable to the <br/>
bigger areas which belonged to the Netherlands between 1949 and 1963, <br/>
which were annexed pieces of Germany, i.e. Elten and the West <br/>
Selfkant. These areas were so-called Drostambts, governed by a <br/>
landdrost. They were no normal Dutch municipalities, although I read <br/>
somewhere that at least the landdrost of the West Selfkant did answer <br/>
to the Limburgish provincial government (but I stand corrected on <br/>
this...).<br/>
<br/>
Which brings me to another interesting item: areas that are not <br/>
subject to the &quot;normal&quot; territorial subdivisional principles. Could <br/>
someone give some examples of these (other than colonies and other <br/>
obvious overseas areas, and various federal districts)?<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>