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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:24:07 -0400
From: "L. A. Nadybal" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: "Doubly-landlocked countries" - 5 more with * (fwd)
 
Verenahof was traded to Switzerland for a sliver of Swiss land adjacent to
German border west of the Rheinfall of roughly equal size. I have a map and
short history of the trade and related treaty, if you are interested, but
only in German language.
 
Len Nadybal
Washington DC
 
At 09:27 AM 09/09/1998 -0400, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 10:45:53 +1000
>From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: "Doubly-landlocked countries" - 5 more with * (fwd)
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>>Switzerland, being landlocked, has one piece each of Italy and
>>Germany inside it, creating a Liechtenstein-like parallel for these
>>portions of their respective mother countries.
>
>Busingen exists, sure. Can anyone tell me what happened to the nearby farm
>of Verena hof, which in the mid 50s and for some time in the 60s was also
>German, inside Schaffhausen canton about 200m from the gemrna border, but
>has disappeared from subsequent maps. Robinson noted it in his 1950s work
>on exclaves but Catudal's 1970s work doesn't list it. It seems to have been
>transferred in between times back to Switzerland, but why, when and in
>exchange for what?
>
>
>>With respect to Azerbaijan, it has a small piece or two in the extreme
>>northwest of it inside otherwise landlocked Armenia.
>
>There are 2. There is also an Armenian village inside Azerbaijan in this
>northern corner, making 3 in total
>But see below
>
>>There's also a
>>piece of Naxcivan Autonomous Replublic (which is a large detached
>>piece of of Azerbaijan) inside Armenia.  So, if you consider than an
>>autonomous republic of Azerbaijan belongs on the list, then it too,
>>should be added.
>
>Nagorno Karabakh has declared independence, and is inside landlocked
>Azerbaijan. Further, there are 2 or 3 pieces of Azerbaijan inside it, and 2
>or 3 fragmentary pieces of N-K inside Azerbaijan
>Or, at least there WERE, as since the Azeri-Armenian conflict of the early
>90s, these may all only exist on paper. The Nagorno-Karabakh bits also seem
>to doffer in number depending upon which map one looks at, presumably
>because the authorities kept changing the boundary.
>
>>
>>Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are others.  The have three exclaves between
>>them (the Uzbeks having two), in Kyrgyzstan's southwestern panhandle.
>>All three of these countries are landlocked, meaning they too, can be
>>added to the asterisked part of the list.
>
>There are about 7 bits of Tajikistan or Uzbekistan inside Uzbekia and
>kirgizia respectively, some with resonable sized towns, others seemingly
>just a couple of fields.
>Does anyone have access to Soviet maps of this area (Ferghana Valley) at
>1:200 000 or larger?
>Please contact me.
>
>Brendan Whyte
>University of Melbourne
>
>