thanx for this new understanding

the fact that this portion of the esfr condo is actually a time share
rather than a simultaneous sharing of territory
apparently makes it unique in the world
unlike even its own fraternal esfr condo at the mouth of the bidassoa
which i believe is of the more conventional condo mold

i mean to the extent that such rarities could ever be considered
commonplace in any sense

but i think not even the tin bigha corridor compares
since i dont think national sovereignty actually alternates there

also
since the thalweg runs by on only 1 side of the island
this singular so called condo is rather actually an even stranger
sort of thing than advertised

for unless i am mistaken
its situation actually makes it a sometime clave
blinking on & off once a year
tho i am not yet sure of which country in which

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, quadernet <quadernet@y...>
wrote:

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> "In Basque Country, in the middle of the Bidassoa river, the

tiny "Konpantzia" (in basque), "Île de l'hôpital" or "Île-des-
Faisans" (in french), "Isla de los Faisanes" (in spanish) --pheasant
island-- is the smallest condominium in the world: it belongs for six
months to France and six months to Spain. It was there that the
Pyrenees treaty was signed in 1659 by the very young Louis XIV under
the tutelage of Mazarin, and Philippe IV of Spain. This treaty
defined the border separating the two kingdoms.

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> Negotiations were lengthy, particularly over Cerdanya. The border

was often the subject of dispute and there were aberrations such as
Llívia, the Spanish enclave in Cerdanya. Two centuries past before
three Border Treaties were signed (1853, 1862, 1866), defining a
border that was generally accepted in the following years. 602
numbered milestones marked the definitive border between the Atlantic
and the Mediterranean"

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