Posted on 01/30/2023 2:17:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Pyrenees mountain range has divided Spain and France for centuries, with Spain on the south side, and France on the north. But why is there one strange little blob of Spain over on the French side? I visited the historic enclave of Llivia and discovered the spectacularly pedantic reason behind its existence...
How A Spectacular Piece Of Pedantry Created An International Enclave
The Tim Traveller | 306K subscribers | 427,474 views | January 25, 2022
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Every 31st January, at midnight, France's Pheasant Island does something extremely strange. It becomes Spanish. And every 31st July, it flips and becomes French again. It's the world's only regular, scheduled, country-swapping island. So this summer, I went to see the flipping thing for myself...The World's Only Country-Swapping Island
The Tim Traveller | 245,009 views | October 23, 2021
Does Hank Johnson, D-Ga. know about this?
THANK YOU!!! This is a piece of history that I am really intrigued.
“The Pyrenees mountain range has divided Spain and France for centuries”
Well OK then. But who brought in all that dirt and rock a few centuries ago to create that mountain range? It sounds like Kamala Harris wrote the intro.
Ah but it doesn’t flip over
Haha, or does it?
bkmk
My pleasure. I’d noticed it on maps before, and never thought much about it, then the video showed up on the related vids feed.
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