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The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities

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During the battle between the gods and the giants, he was going to throw a massive rock at Poseidon when it slipped from his hands and crashed into the sea. Now shut off to visitors, it was once an important neutral territory and home to a landmark event between Spain and France. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. From wedding gift enclaves in Bosnia, to bizarre Finnish boundaries drawn up to build a lighthouse and towns where neighbours need passports to pop in for a cup of tea.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Tomb of Suleyman Shah which is a tiny Turkish enclave within Syria which was moved closer to Turkey when Lake Assad was created but still stayed in Syria. In a later meeting with President Reagan, Gorbachev raised a glass to her and commented, “She proved by her courage how close to each other our peoples live. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.These are potential annoyances when planning, but they are also geographical markers of historical events and political conflicts. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. By the time she got out, her fingers were grey and her hands looked like they belonged to a cadaver.

Since the agreement came into place 350 years ago, the small island has changed nationality over 700 times. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. From islands that are in Spain for 6 months of the year and France for the rest, to streets with one side in America and the other in Canada, this beautifully designed book is a reminder that the world is not always what we think. Canadian Stanstead and American Beebe Plain where the boundary line runs along the center of the main street, so that the houses on one side of the street are in Canada and on the other in the United States. Pheasant Island which for half a year belongs to the Spanish city of Irun, and the remaining half, to its French twin-town, Hendaye.During the Cold War, all the inhabitants of Big Diomede were forced onto mainland Russia so that they did not contact their American neighbors on Little Diomede. Who is the mystery woman buried on a mountain that has been home to only men since the eighth century?

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