Subject: Re: US counties, unincorprated territories<br/>
Date: Nov 07, 2001 @ 23:00<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1159470093">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Manfred Haertel &lt;Manfred.Haertel@r...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Peter Smaardijk wrote:<br/>
&gt; (...)&quot;Freistaat&quot;: Bavaria and Saxony. <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; There is a third one: Thuringia (Thüringen).<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; I don&#39;t know whether this has any<br/>
&gt; &gt; implications. <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; No. &quot;Freistaat&quot; is just another word for republic.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>OK. No implications (just as &quot;Free and Hanseatic City&quot; in the case of <br/>
Hamburg). But what is the origin of this &quot;Freistaat&quot;??<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>