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BANNED
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: moja Banja Luka
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Serbian/Croatian Francuska
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Figueira da Foz / London
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Prtuguese is even more similar:
Spain-Espanha France-França
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#103 |
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Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Budapest
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come on! Those words are even similar in hungarian...spanish-spanyol,french-francia
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Hungarian motorways Hungarian railways Budapest constructions&updates Budapest metro M4 Pictures about Sopron,Szeged,Veszprém,Debrecen,Keszthely,Lake Balaton, Touristy and not-touristy Budapest |
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Wish I were there
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Hague
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Kerkrade, Netherlands.
Border Netherlands and Germany It wasn't always so.... Same spot late 19th century
Last edited by KIWIKAAS; November 9th, 2007 at 04:58 PM. |
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#105 |
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Quantum States of America
Join Date: Jan 2007
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You mean... one lane of that street is in NL and the other in Germany? Wow...
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#106 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ljubljana
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^ Yeah, previously you had to show passport in the roundabout. Or when overtaking. Joke.
Seriously, how was this regulated?
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#107 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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The website those photos come from, Special European Borders, says that the road was divided into two by a wall.
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#108 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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There are more examples like that one in Kerkrade. But it is nothing compared to the border lines in Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) and Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands).
![]() ![]() All the white lines are border lines... |
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#109 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ljubljana
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That's nothing. Where's that enclave in exclave in enclave in exclave...?
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Legalise it!
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Кёниг -> Evergreen State
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#112 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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They'll sure do. I lived in a border village for many years but never had problems with it. Even better, I worked in a dutch supermarkt and about 80% of the costumers were Germans.
German is not a very difficult language for dutch people so most people can speak it, more or less. In the border regions sometimes people from both sides of the border can even communicate with each other, talking in their own language (if not with an dialect).
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#113 |
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yimby
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Zwolle, NL
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Eastern Netherlands dialect is even called "Nedersaksisch", Niedersachsisch or Lower Saxonian. People in Ostfriesland (Germany) often speak some sort of Dutch-German dialect.
German is also teached at school. i personally can read German very good, although i can also write it, the grammar is more complicated. |
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World citizen
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: ...NL
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Glanerbrug (NL) a village near my hometown.
A couple of streets between Glanerbrug (NL) and Gronau (D) Dutch sign This cafe is German, the sign with 50km is Glanerbrug (NL) Busstop for German and Dutch busses. Most people who lives near or at the Dutch and German border, can communicate in both languages. In the Netherlands every school teached German. In Germany they teach only Dutch at schools in german villages near the Dutch borders. |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ljubljana
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Obreje/Bregana, the main (motorway) border crossing between Slovenia and Croatia:
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Appleton, WI USA
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Speaking of the Schengen Zone, its big expansion has been set for 2007-12-21.
http://euobserver.com/9/25109/?rk=1 The nine new countries - Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - will formally join the Zone and drop their internal border controls on that date. ![]() Now - to have such a setup in North America.... Mike Last edited by mgk920; November 10th, 2007 at 09:25 AM. |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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To be honest, I don't know the exact history. This says wikipedia:
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Rick Bakker
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Culemborg
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A clearer map of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, the red arced area is belgium territory and green are dutch counter-enclaves:
![]() But that's peanuts compared to the Cooch Behar border region between India and Bangladesh ![]() note: Old map! But the border is still the same
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#119 |
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yimby
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Zwolle, NL
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Today, both N35 and B54 are rerouted in a rural route around the urban area of Enschede and Gronau. I think this was a mistake, the N35 and B54 were already rerouted in 2001, however there was a gap missing in Gronau, so you had to go through the city, but not through Glanerbrug, that was longer ago. |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tallinn
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