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Tag: borders
Confusing Borders: Baarle-Hertog
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Today’s topic is international borders, specifically a very messy border between Belgium and the Netherlands. It is allegedly the most complicated border in the world, and this isn’t that hard to believe. It is Baarle-Hertog, a Belgian exclave in the Netherlands. It is more than just an exclave, however, because it contains numerous smaller Dutch …
Peace of Westphalia in the News, 6/2022
This post is a welcome change, for me at least, because it brings the Peace of Westphalia into completely different contexts than I’m used to reading about. The first article is “Spy x Family: 5 Things You Need To Know About Westalis,” an article at gamerant.com — not the usual source of Westphalia references. “Spy …