Subject: Re: NL-enclave in Canada!<br/>
Date: Feb 15, 2003 @ 12:27<br/>
Author: anorak222 &lt;listen@wschwanke.de&gt; (&quot;anorak222 &lt;listen@...&gt;&quot; &lt;listen@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1318556853">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;L. A. Nadybal &lt;lnadybal@c...&gt;&quot; &lt;lnadybal@c...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; In German, &quot;Capital City&quot;  is &quot;Hauptstadt&quot;.  &quot;Regierungssitz&quot; is &quot;Seat<br/>
&gt; of Government&quot;.  Perhaps we should attune ourselves to differentiating<br/>
&gt;  what we mean in English.  Wouldn&#39;t Capital City be merely the &quot;Main<br/>
&gt; City&quot; -<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Not really. &quot;Hauptstadt&quot;/&quot;Capital&quot; is a political function which has to be declared somehow (e.g. by law), even though nobody seems to be able to define it what that function should be, if not &quot;seat of government&quot;, in cases where the two are separate. But it is not just the &quot;major city&quot; of a country.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; When the German seat of government was Bonn, the Capital City<br/>
&gt; was still Berlin (even though Berlin during the post war occupation<br/>
&gt; period wasn&#39;t inside of the Federal Republic).<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Nah. The capital of the Federal Republic was Bonn; the capital of the German Democratic Republic was (East) Berlin (this function was disputed by the Western Allies for exactly the reason that they regarded East Berlin not as GDR territory - but let&#39;s leave that complication aside, different subject).<br/>
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What you say is true though for the time between 1990 and 1998. In 1990, reunification was achieved, and since that time Berlin was &quot;capital&quot;  by law. The seat of government still remained in Bonn. Only in 1998 did they move to Berlin.<br/>
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A similar example, where this distinction has been permanent for I-don&#39;t-know-how-long, is Holland. &quot;Capital&quot; is Amsterdam (seat of the Queen, but not much else), but &quot;seat of government&quot; (where all the real politics take place) is Den Haag. And I believe Australia is similar.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; New York would be the Capital City of the USA in that sense<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Not in the sense that the word is used in Germany, and the other &quot;borderline&quot; countries who distinguish the two for their own peculiar reasons. :)<br/>
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Regards</div>