Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by aasasd on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:32PM
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Belgium has such a place of its own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
However India-Bangladesh has enclaves of a higher nesting order.
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by baybal2 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:40PM
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Allegedly it's because local rulers were playing carrom, and were betting villages.
Once Britishers came, Bengal was separated from the rest of India along their borders of their territories.
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by gwright on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:29PM
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This is another interesting one. A part of Russia that sits on the Baltic Sea disconnected from Russia proper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by lizknope on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:28PM
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That was basically East Prussia and they forcibly removed the Germans.
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by blahedo on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:10PM
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And the city of Kaliningrad might be more familiar in this crowd under its old (Prussian) name of Königsberg (as in "Bridges of").
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by jacquesm on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:51PM
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One day that will cause a major geopolitical headache. And now every time I move around in that area it causes me a huge detour. Oh, and I ended up accidentally at the Belarussian border one day (note to self: update your satnav).
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by mey on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:27PM
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Little video on that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by simondotau on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:47PM
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I don’t even have to click the link to know that it’s that episode of Map Men.
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
by athenot on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:20PM
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Wow this is crazy. But at the same time, it could be an interesting solution for other disputed borders around the world. Leaders are often obsessed with drawing a clean line between 2 areas but reality is a lot more messy and nuanced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_encla...