The current issue (ie. January 2006) of hidden europe magazine
(http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk) has an article on a little documented
border adjustment in 1951, that redefined the line of the border between
southeast Poland and neighbouring Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union).
It had the effect that several villages and small towns, which had been in
post-war Poland, found themselves in Ukraine (eg. Rava Rus'ka). And,
further south, places that had been in Ukraine were now in Poland (eg.
Ustzyki Dolne). The article also looks at the modern border in that
region, and the way in which some public transport links have been cut in
recent years.
Elsewhere in the same issue there's a report from Les Minquiers, a few
islands in the Golfe de St Malo off the French coast, which were the
subject of an International Court boundary arbitration in the 50s (which
gave them to the Bailiwick of Jersey). And the editors of hidden europe
also explore (in the same January 2006 issue) an abandoned highway on the
Montenegro - Kosovo border.
The magazine also has a free e-newsletter too, that has had some
internationmal boundary material - a report last month on the tightening
regime on the Moldova / Romanian border, a piece in November on the
Luxembourg village of Schengen, etc.
Thought this might be of interest.
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