Jan: Has anyone written extensively online (or a book) about the old Soviet sistema? I was trying to follow it from the Baltic Sea all the way to the Sea of...
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reidschun
Jul 23, 2011 4:45 pm
Hi Jan, Thanks for your posting. However, you write "borderzones" but seem to be referring to "border strips", although I'm not sure. Which are you referring...
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Jan S. Krogh
jakro64
Jul 23, 2011 5:52 pm
Robert, With "borderzone" I refer to a usually 200-5000 m wide restricted territory, and not the borderstrip or boundary vista. The Russian borderzone is about...
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Jan S. Krogh
jakro64
Jul 23, 2011 6:03 pm
Doug, I cannot recall any book, but I have read some articles about it. Although at the moment I cannot find any online links. Thank you so much for your...
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Robert Eidschun
reidschun
Jul 23, 2011 6:13 pm
Hi Jan, Thanks for your reply. I've made some comments below, in-line. Perhaps you could clear up a few more points for me? Thanks. Robert ... In 2000, I...
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Jan S. Krogh
jakro64
Jul 23, 2011 7:03 pm
... From: borderpoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:borderpoint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Robert Eidschun Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 9:13 PM To:...
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Robert Eidschun
reidschun
Jul 24, 2011 4:00 am
Hi Jan, If you visited Russian Vistytis from Nevskoye, then I assume you took road P510, which runs from Dobrovol'sk in the north, all the way to the border in...
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jduester
Jul 24, 2011 7:28 pm
Interesting article on the border between Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia and the territorial trade-off of Buraimi/al-Ain for Khor al-Udaid: Schofield, Richard "The...
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Jan S. Krogh
jakro64
Jul 27, 2011 8:37 am
Hello Robert, Thank you very much for your information including ortomaps with text. Very interesting. Amazing...! Hard to get rid of old habits. Jan ... ...
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Doug Murray
dougmurray85
Jul 27, 2011 11:29 am
You'd think they could do drug tests in less than 12 days: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/07/26/mb-heroine-oil-senior-border-manitoba.html ...
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Matthias Leube
matthias.leube
Jul 30, 2011 9:51 am
Hello, some time ago I bought one copy of the border atlas France - Saargebiet (Saar Territory) of 1920. I made pictures of the maps. As far as I know, there...
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Barry Arnold
barry_432
Jul 31, 2011 5:31 pm
After an early start from London we arrived at the tripoint in time for a picnic breakfast - which we decided to have in Belgium. It is a lovely spot which...
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george
geoh88
Aug 4, 2011 8:06 pm
You may enjoy this Los Angeles Times story. Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/3sq2s3r <http://tinyurl.com/3sq2s3r> Full URL: ...
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Harry ten Veen
veenhh
Aug 7, 2011 7:20 pm
Hi Barry Thanks for sharing your pictures with us. You are right that this isn't a real tripoint but a triline-thing. Even the official sign has it wrong. See...
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Brendan Whyte
obiwonfive
Aug 15, 2011 12:22 am
Two recent papers that demonstrate the use of Excel to map boundaries based on data from enclave boundary treaties. The first uses the example of the Vennbahn...
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Barry Arnold
barry_432
Aug 15, 2011 9:21 am
Hi Harry, I enjoyed looking at your collection of photos - of course you are right the river is the Our. I mixed the river tripoint combination. Thanks for the...
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Brendan Whyte
obiwonfive
Aug 15, 2011 11:10 pm
... Hans Christian Andersen's lost story "The bounday dispute." Once upon a time a German and a Belgian are standing on opposite banks of a river arguing. ...
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Mike Beidler
mike_beidler
Aug 15, 2011 11:13 pm
Huh. I was really hoping for a really good punchline. Oh, well. ... the river is the Our. ... a river arguing. ... field with his family. ... "The border...
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David Kendall
dhkendall@...
Aug 16, 2011 3:50 am
... The German and the Belgian asked the Luxemburger why he wanted to share his part of the river with the other two, rather than claim the whole of it for...
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Harry ten Veen
veenhh
Aug 16, 2011 6:04 pm
Very nice Brendan This tale stands only in the English language. Hans Christian mixed up the partners that shared the river. The Our runs south so LU en DE are...
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Jan S. Krogh
jakro64
Aug 21, 2011 11:54 am
I was just called up by Mr Mahfuz Sadiqe, a BBC journalist who informed me that the Cooch Behar enclaves/exclaves are to be history in these hours. For the...
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Artur Kroc
krasnalpl
Aug 21, 2011 12:06 pm
Let the earth be light upon them..."Jan S. Krogh" <jan@...> pisze: I was just called up by Mr Mahfuz Sadiqe, a BBC journalist who informed me...
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Len Nadybal
lnadybal
Aug 21, 2011 4:03 pm
I think this announcement may be a little premature. This article also appeared in the press, implying that ratifications of the treaty need to be completed,...
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george
geoh88
Aug 23, 2011 9:28 pm
Seeking help understanding dj-er boundary in vicinity of seacoast. Based on International Boundary Study #154 there seems no reason to believe that the...
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Goyta' F. Villela...
goytabr
Aug 23, 2011 10:11 pm
... I don't have any direct information, George, but although the drawn line appears to be drifted a few metres from its likely real place (judging from the...
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Jesper
jesniel
Aug 24, 2011 7:05 am
Here is the best known topo map is Soviet 200k, http://poehali.org/maps/200k--d38-26.html The island seems to be called Dumeyra or Dumeira I think. Googling...
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Goyta' F. Villela...
goytabr
Aug 24, 2011 11:37 am
... That link led to a page where one could download the map (there was a link to an English version of the page) as a 2.8-MB GIF image. The map must be indeed...
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george
geoh88
Aug 24, 2011 9:27 pm
... http://poehali.org/maps/200k--d38-26.html <http://poehali.org/maps/200k--d38-26.html> Jesper, thanks very much for this map link, which does seem to...
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george
geoh88
Aug 24, 2011 9:46 pm
... Djibouti, which makes sense, because most of its area is closer to the Djibouti mainland than to Eritrea. ... Goyta, just FYI, it does not seem to be...
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Goyta' F. Villela...
goytabr
Aug 25, 2011 12:10 am
... Indeed. After further searching, I also found this: http://tinyurl.com/3lpopxy (English Wikipedia article on Djibouti-Eritrea border conflict) ...
