Everything about Baarle-nassau totally explained
Baarle-Nassau is a
municipality and a town in the southern
Netherlands.
It is closely linked, with complicated borders, to the
Belgian exclaves of
Baarle-Hertog. Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate pieces of land. Apart from the main piece (called
Zondereigen) located north of the Belgian town of
Merksplas, there are 22 Belgian
exclaves in the Netherlands and three other pieces on the Dutch-Belgian border. There are also seven Dutch exclaves located within the Belgian exclaves. Six of them are located in the largest one and a seventh in the second-largest one. An eighth Dutch exclave lies in Zondereigen. The smallest enclave, H22, measures 2,632 square metres.
The complex border situation is a result of a number of equally complex medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. Generally speaking, predominantly agricultural or built environments became constituents of Brabant, other parts devolved to Breda. These distributions were ratified and clarified as a part of the borderline settlements arrived at during the
Treaty of Maastricht in
1843.
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