Border between France and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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France – Netherlands border
Monument on the border between France and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

The border between France and the Kingdom of the Netherlands is on the island of St. Martin in the Caribbean and is 10.2 km in length.

The northern part of the island belongs to France and, as the so-called outermost region, also to the European Union , the southern part to the Kingdom of the Netherlands .

history

The current French-Dutch land border on the island of St. Martin was established by the Treaty of Concordia on March 23, 1648. A local legend describes the process of drawing the border as follows: A Frenchman and a Dutchman had circled the island in different directions, at the point where they met again, the border between the two parts of the island was drawn. In 1948 a monument was erected on the main road between the two main towns on the island to celebrate the 300 years of peaceful coexistence between the two nations. Historically, until the Belgian Revolution of 1830 and the resulting dissolution of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands in 1839, there was also a common border between the two states on the European continent.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regional policy and the outermost regions. In: ec.europa.eu. European Commission, accessed August 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 1648: the Treaty of Concordia, Sint Maarten. In: karibik-geschichte.de. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The Border Monument. In: www.inyourpocket.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Rolf Falter: Achtiendertig, de scheiding van Nederland, Nederland en Luxembourg . 1st edition. Lannoo, 2005, ISBN 978-90-209-5836-2 .