Hello friends,
What has caused these borders to form like this?
Weird borders general.
>What has caused these borders to form like this?
Not to be an asshole here, but the answer is pretty obvious if you know anything about the european military history of the last few hundred years.
>>676973
>What has caused these borders to form like this?
Germans
Dukes and later on nation states bickering
There's a small piece of Russia inside Belarus, no fucking idea why.
JUST
India Pakistan border is crazy
>>676973
Duchy of Limburg lad
>>677292
Ir's pretty logical. Catholic and protestant landowners refuding to give up their feudal lands.
Pretty cool history, but it was a disaster for customs authorities.
There was a bar with a Belgian and a Dutch entry where a table was placed right on the border. The "smugglers" simply had a drink together and put the contraband on the bartable. Even today the Dutch side has sexshops while the Belgian shop has fireworkstores, with different laws being difficult to maintain.
>>677296
India-Bangladesh I think you mean
>enclave in an enclave in an enclave
What kinda border u want?
>>677424
Just fuck my precolonial feudal treaties up
>>677433
Say no more
>>677433
Poo in loo
>>676973
Maastricht was (and still is) a strategic city on a river
War
Religion
Ethnic groups
>>676973
VON DER MAAS BIS UND DIE MEMEL
VON DER ETSCH BIS UN DEN BELT
>>677424
They've ben negotiating on fixing those borders, rip 3rd order enclave
Just Armo my shit up.
Somebody could explain why this part is still russian?
>>677530
Because they Russified the region post-ww2 and made it part of the Russian SSR.
>>677530
Muh baltic base
>>677512
not even that bad desu familia
>>677103
Pretty much this. And the fact that the Limburgers took every opportunity to distance themselves from 'Holland' didn't really help either, the absolute madmen just decided to be Belgian at some point
>>677541
basically this
>>677541
>muh warm port
Also the russians always dream with owning Konigsberg
>>677292
>an enclave inside of an enclave
>>677424
>cooch behar state
>cooch
i chuckled
