Subject: Re: oldest purely &#39;fiat&#39; international boundary?<br/>
Date: Dec 05, 2001 @ 02:50<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1258208881">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., David Mark &lt;dmark@g...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I guess my colleague&#39;s claim is that there were few if any demarcated<br/>
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&gt; boundaries that wandered across the landscape independent of landscape<br/>
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&gt; features in the old days. I bet there are few walls that formed<br/>
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&gt; international boundaries.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>i would have thought the walls were the only working boundaries<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; For sake of argument, let&#39;s say straight for 1 km or more.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>what makes that an interesting length<br/>
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you know all these frontiers were of variable thickness anyway til the advent of the modern boundary line & monument concept probably circa 12th or 13th century<br/>
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gartner wolfgang has treated us to pix of some of the earliest such monuments still in existence from perhaps the mid 14th century tho no longer working now but stored in dinxpeerlo museum if i recall<br/>
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so that may give you a second way of answering the question<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; But I&#39;d like to hear about even a curvy international birder <br/>
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 </span></blockquote>ahh so thats what you international birders go for</div>