Moresnet
Moresnet även Neutrala Moresnet[1] är ett område i den belgiska provinsen Liège, vid den tyska gränsen, cirka 5,5 kvadratkilometer stort[2].
Området blev 1816 ett neutralt område som skulle styras gemensamt av Nederländerna och Preussen.[3] När Belgien bildades 1830 övertog det i praktiken, men inte officiellt, Nederländernas plats. Moresnet annekterades av Tyskland 1915, men tillföll Belgien vid Versaillesfreden 1919[2]. Tyskland återannekterade Moresnet under en kort period under andra världskriget.
Referenser
Noter
- ^ ”THE MORESNET REPUBLIC; Belgium Expects the District to Revert to Her.” (på engelska). https://www.nytimes.com/1903/09/20/archives/the-moresnet-republic-belgium-expects-the-district-to-revert-to-her.html. Läst 30 juli 2018.
- ^ [a b] ”Moresnet - Uppslagsverk - NE.se”. www.ne.se. https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/moresnet. Läst 13 maj 2020.
- ^ ”Utilisation du zinc dans l’Antiquité en Grèce et en Égypte” (på franska). www.vmzinc.fr. https://www.vmzinc.fr/historique.html. Läst 30 juli 2018.
Externa länkar
- Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Moresnet.
Media som används på denna webbplats
Schematic map of the location and surroundings of Neutral Moresnet.
Features:
- The Netherlands (as of 1830)*, province of Limburg
- Belgium (as of 1830)*, province of Liège
- Neutral Moresnet (1816–1919)
- Prussia, Rhine Province
a. The Dutch-Belgian border (as of 1843)*
b. The Aachen–Liège road
c. The present-day German-Belgian border (as of 1919)#
(*) Territories (1) and (2) were joined from 1815 until 1830 as the united Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1830, Belgium seceded, which was acknowledged by the Dutch in 1839. The border between the two countries was formally determined in 1843.
(#) In 1919, Belgium received bilingual Moresnet and the part-Germanophone, part-Francophone East Cantons as compensation for damages incurred in World War I. Since then, all territories marked (2), (3) and (4 west of c) have been part of Belgium, except for a brief period in World War II when Germany (re-)annexed Moresnet and the East Cantons.
The map was hand-drawn by Arjan de Weerd, who releases it into the public domain, provided he is credited whenever the image is (re)used.