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	Moresnet
		Moresnet or Neutral Moresnet was, from 1816 to 1919, a tiny European mini-state of about 3.5 km² that existed solely because its two large neighbours couldn't agree on who should own it, deciding therefore to make it a neutral territory where both would share control equally.
		At first the territory was governed by two royal commissioners, one from each neighbour, but later Moresnet was granted a greater measure of self-administration when a mayor and a council of ten members were installed, with the mayor (also the head of state) appointed by the two commissioners.
		Life in Neutral Moresnet was dominated by the zinc mine as the major employer, which attracted many workers from the neighbouring countries who supplemented the original "neutral" population, though the total population of Moresnet never exceeded 3000.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Moresnet.html (645 words)

	Moresnet Information
		Moresnet or Neutral Moresnet was a tiny European territory of about 3.5 km² that existed from 1816 to 1919.
		Neutral Moresnet and surroundings: 1: The Netherlands; 2: Belgium, Liège province; 3: Neutral Moresnet; 4: Prussia, Rhine province.
		Life in Neutral Moresnet was dominated by the zinc mine as the major employer, which attracted many workers from the neighboring countries, though the total population of the territory never exceeded 3000.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Moresnet (872 words)

	Moresnet - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moresnet or Neutral Moresnet was, from 1816 to 1919, a tiny European mini-state of about 3.5 km² that existed solely because its two large neighbours couldn't agree on who should own it, deciding therefore to make it a neutral territory where both would share control equally.
		At first the territory was governed by two royal commissioners, one from each neighbour, but later Moresnet was granted a greater measure of self-administration when a mayor and a council of ten members were installed, with the mayor (also the head of state) appointed by the two commissioners.
		Life in Neutral Moresnet was dominated by the zinc mine as the major employer, which attracted many workers from the neighbouring countries who supplemented the original "neutral" population, though the total population of Moresnet never exceeded 3000.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Moresnet (706 words)

	Moresnet - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moresnet, strictly MontzenMoresnet, is, as its name implies, a mountain, under which is the extremely valuable zinc mine owned by the "Vieille Montagne Company," which is a Belgian undertaking.
		The state of Moresnet owes its origin to the general European settlement of 1815.
		This arrangement lasted until 1841, when Moresnet was given an administration of its own, this being composed of a burgomaster and a council of ten members.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Moresnet (251 words)

	MORESNET - Online Information article about MORESNET
		village is that of Neutral Moresnet, also called Kelmis or Kalmis, with 2800 inhabitants.
		Just over the Prussian frontier is Prussian Moresnet, with 65o inhabitants, and in Belgium is Belgian Moresnet, with about 1200.
		Moresnet, strictly Montzen-Moresnet, is, as its name implies, a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOL_MOS/MORESNET.html (455 words)

	lecture1
		Moresnet went to the Netherlands, the present Neu-Moresnet became part of Prussia under the name of Prussian Moresnet and the little area with the village Kelmis and the zinc mine got a neutral status.
		The former neutral territory officially became a part of Belgium, and 50 border markers and a small museum are all that remain of this unique chapter in European history.
		Moresnet's destiny was tied to its zinc mine, but it could have sought a different path.
	www.homestead.com /dumezil/lecture1.html (963 words)

	Neutral Moresnet
		Although Neutral Moresnet is but a few miles from Aix-la-Chapelle, and although an electric-car line will be continued from the city to its edgeprobably, before this, has been continued-it is a lost territory.
		The division of Neutral Moresnet has long been intended, plans have from time to time been proposed for it, and it is apt to be accomplished at any moment.
		The remaining 460 are descendants of those who were inhabitants when the Triangle became neutral, and they are highly privileged, for their taxes remain the same as their ancestors paid in 1814, and they are free from any military service whatever.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles04/uv9.shtml (3684 words)

	Moresnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moresnet or Neutral Moresnet was a tiny European territory of about 3.5 km² (1.4 mi²) that existed from 1816 to 1919.
		On 26 June 1816 a compromise was reached: the mairie of Moresnet would be divided into three parts.
		The new territory of Neutral Moresnet had a more or less triangular shape with the base being the main road from Aachen to Liège.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moresnet (902 words)

	Moresnet - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The village of Moresnet itself would become Dutch, Neu-Moresnet would become part f Prussia, and the mine and the adjacent village of Kelmis (La Calamine in French) would, for the mean time, become neutral territory with both nations establishing a joint administration for the area.
		A downside to their special status was the fact that people from Neutral Moresnet were ccnsidered to be stateless and were not allowed a military of their own.
		The oost-war Treaty of Versailles of 1919 would settle the matter of the "temporary neutrality" established a hundred years earlier when it awarded the territory of Neutral Moresnet to Belgium, along with the German municipalities of Eupen and Malmédy.
	www.wikileasing.com /0/Moresnet.html (799 words)

	Kelmis (Municipality, Province of Liège, Belgium) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It forms the north-eastern point of the province of Liège and is bordered in the south by the German-speaking municipalities of Raeren and Lontzen, in the north by the French-speaking municipality of Plombières (especially the former municipalities of Moresnet and Gemmenich), and in the north-east by the German municipality of Aachen.
		The Mayor and the Council Municipal of Moresnet Neutre remained in office until the election of a new Council on 7 February 1923.
		It is reasonable to admit that the flag of the Neutral Territory was derived from the arms; 1837 is the year of foundation of the big mining company by Mosselman.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/be-wlgkm.html (2395 words)

	Senlime, esperanto-asocio en Euregiono Mozo-Rejno - English - Senlime - Neutral Moresnet
		Moresnet or Neutral Moresnet was a tiny European territory of about 3.5 km² (1.4 mi²) that existed from 1816 to 1919.
		On 26 June 1816 a compromise was reached: the mairie of Moresnet would be divided into three parts.
		A downside to their special status was the fact that people from Neutral Moresnet were considered to be stateless and were not allowed a military of their own.
	users.belgacom.net /esperanto/_sgt/m2m1s1_1.htm (848 words)

	The Territory of Moresnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moresnet was no (semi)-independant state but a territory with a very special status between 1841 and the end of WW I. It was an area made of three small "communes" (municipalities) somewhere between Belgium, Netherlands and Germany (Prussia).
		In the end, Moresnet was declared neutral territory in 1841 and it remained neutral until 1919 when it was annexed by one of the victorious powers: Belgium.
		Germany renounces in favour of Belgium all rights and title over the territory of Prussian Moresnet situated on the west of the road from Liege to Aix-la-Chapelle; the road will belong to Belgium where it bounds this territory.
	users.skynet.be /suffrage-universel/be/befrmoresnet.htm (253 words)

	De grenspalen van Moresnet
		Moresnet was een neutraal staatje van 1815 tot 1919.
		Het enige bestaansrecht van Moresnet lag in de plaatselijke zinkmijn die zowel door Nederland als Pruisen begeerd werd na de val van Napoleon.
		De neutrale status was een compromis en werd vastgelegd in het Akens grensverdrag.
	www.grenspalen.nl /archief/moresnet-grenspalen-intro.html (294 words)

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		MORESNET, a small neutral state lying on the borders of Prussia and Belgium, 4 m.
		Moresnet, strictly Montzen-Moresnet, is, as its name implies, a mountain, under which is the extremely valuable zinc mine owned by the " Vieille Montagne Company," which is a Belgian undertaking.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=46352 (354 words)

	27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moresnet, also called "Neutral Moresnet", was formed 1816 as a compromise between the Netherlands and Prussia, who were fighting over a zinc mine on its territory.
		However, in the early 1900s, several attempts were made to establish Moresnet as a more independent entity.
		One can still see many of the stones marking the borders of Moresnet, and there is a small museum in the nearby town of Neu-Moresnet commemorating its history.
	math.ucr.edu /home/baez/puzzles/27.html (222 words)

	Kelmis (Municipality, Province of Liège, Belgium) # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge ...
		It forms the north-eastern point of the province of Liège and is bordered in the south by the German-speaking municipalities of Raeren and Lontzen, in the north by the French-speaking municipality of Plombières (especially the former municipalities of Moresnet and Gemmenich), and in the north-east by the German municipality of Aachen.
		The Mayor and the Council Municipal of Moresnet Neutre remained in office until the election of a new Council on 7 February 1923.
		It is reasonable to admit that the flag of the Neutral Territory was derived from the arms; 1837 is the year of foundation of the big mining company by Mosselman.
	www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/be-wlgkm.html (2523 words)

	BELGIENINFO.net
		In Wien konnte der Streit um Moresnet nicht beigelegt werden und es dauerte bis Mitte des Jahres 1816, ehe es zu folgendem Kompromiss kam: Der westliche Teil des Gebietes ging an die Niederlande, der östliche Teil an Preußen.
		Moresnet wurde weit über seine Grenzen hinaus als Schmugglernest und Paradies für illegale Glücksspiele bekannt.
		Aus dem dreigeteilten Moresnet entstand die Gemeinde Kelmis (auf Französisch La Calamine), die bis heute als Teil der deutschsprachigen Ostkantone zu Belgien gehört.
	www.belgieninfo.net /x5www_lale_back_detail.php?recpoint=3439 (599 words)

	neutral_moresnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon, the new map of Europe was drawn at the Vienna Congress.
		The south and east part of the area came to Prussia, the western part came to the Netherlands, while the heart was eclared as a neutral zone.
		In 1919 after the Treaty of Versailles Neutral Moresnet was given to Belgium.
	republika.pl /postcard_jack/neutral_moresnet.htm (101 words)

	Allgemeine Begriffe (V.V. Drei Grenzen)
		Die Göhl bleibt in Belgien von Eynatten bis Sippenaeken (über Moresnet und Bleyberg) und überschreitet die Grenze in Cottessen (zwischen Vaals und Epen).
		Er kam vom Rhein, über Herzogenrath (Rolduc), Vaals, Moresnet, Hontem-Baelen bis Limburg.
		Marveld in Moresnet oder Cosenberg in Montzen (in "Vygh") waren Teile dieses Weges, vom dem hier und da noch Spuren zu finden sind.
	www.trois-frontieres.be /D/faq_with_st2.php (868 words)

	Low Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Comprising the lands around the Rhine delta and extending north to the Frisian coast, these regions have had an influence on European and world history all out of proportion to their size, owing to their strategic location and the patient enterprise of the inhabitants.
		See also Moresnet for another district in southern Limburg (now in the Belgian province of Liege) within which specialized and very local arrangements needed to be made, during the 19th century.
		The area came under a territorial dispute at the close of the Napoleonic Wars, claimed by both The Netherlands and Prussia, and was constituted a Neutral Zone, administered by a commission of the claimant parties.
	ellone-loire.net /obsidian/netherl.html (3653 words)

	Amikejo (place of great friendship) \| MetaFilter
		August 24, 2006 9:00 PM Neutral Moresnet - a wedged-shaped, almost Esperanto speaking, janiformed currency using, one-step anthem playing, created because of a zinc mine, mini-state, that is now nothing more than some border markers.
		Just as cartographers put fake cul-de-sacs into their maps to catch violators of copyright, "Moresnet" is well-known in publishing circles as a copyright trap/hoax conceived and perpetrated by the editors of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
		Presumably by 'almost Esperanto' you mean that Moresnet's version of the language was completely lacking in nouns, and the world to its inhabitants was a heterogenous series of independent acts.
	www.metafilter.com /54223/Amikejo-place-of-great-friendship (1542 words)

	(GCPZA0) Klenkes 2005 - Grenzsteine by Captain Cook
		Neutral Moresnet existed for more than a hundred years.
		It had the form of a wedge of cake and was situated south of the present Three-country-point near Vaals.
		It was a good long walk but I learned a lot and really got the feel of this part of the Neutral Moresnet hinterland.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCPZA0 (1584 words)

	DGlive FR, NL, EN - Kelmis/ La Calamine - the independent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As no solution to the issue could be found at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, this small fleck of land remained independent, under the name of "Neutral Moresnet" until 1919, being jointly administered by the Netherlands (later by Belgium) and Germany.
		Among other profitable enterprises, illegitimate children of the nobility were also conveniently removed to the neutral mini-state.
		Not to be missed: the Nature reserve with its calamine violets, the Göhl Valley Museum and the Hammerbrücke (Hammer Bridge) in Hergenrath.
	www.dglive.be /EN/Desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1396/2261_read-28117 (321 words)

	Free And Independent Luxembourg
		Until less than fifty years ago the city was of a strength only second to that of Gibraltar, but by the Treaty of London, of 1867, the powers decreed that the Duchy should thenceforth be neutral, although it was a province of Holland, and that the fortifications of the capital should be destroyed.
		In the pathway of the nations, army after army overran and harried it, changes of government were frequent, shadowy claims and actual conquests succeeded one another.
		The most picturesque of the men of Luxembourg was that John, the Blind King of Bohemia-hereditary ruler of Luxembourg, setting forth claims upon the Bohemian throne-who was slain at Crecy after heroically going into the battle linked to a knight on either side.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles04/uv8.shtml (3555 words)

	Memo: Myron Taylor --> Miss Tully 6/12/44
		EUPEN, MALMEDY, AND MORESNET.-- These three districts extend along the entire Belgian-German frontier.
		Eupen and Malmedy, formally part of Germany, were transferred to Belgium in 1920 by the Conference of Ambassadors, following an expression of public opions held in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles; and Moresnet, formerly neutral territory, was awarded to Belgium by the same Treaty.
		These territories were claimed by Germany, and on May 19, 1940, ere re-incorporated into the Reich by Hitler.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /andyc/fdr/psf/box52/t469k30.html (341 words)

	Memo: Myron Taylor --> Miss Tully 6/12/44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		EUPEN, MALMEDY, AND MORESNET.-- These three districts extend along the entire Belgian-German frontier.
		Eupen and Malmedy, formally part of Germany, were transferred to Belgium in 1920 by the Conference of Ambassadors, following an expression of public opions held in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles; and Moresnet, formerly neutral territory, was awarded to Belgium by the same Treaty.
		These territories were claimed by Germany, and on May 19, 1940, ere re-incorporated into the Reich by Hitler.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000 /psf/box52/t469k30.html (341 words)

	Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network
		There were plans at the beginning of the 20th century to establish Neutral Moresnet as the world's first Esperanto state, and the short-lived artificial island micronation of Rose Island used Esperanto as its official language in 1968.
		In China, there was talk in some circles after the 1911 Xinhai Revolution about officially replacing Chinese with Esperanto as a means to dramatically bring the country into the twentieth century, though this policy proved untenable.
		However, Esperanto is intentionally culturally neutral: It was intended to be a facilitator between cultures, not the carrier of any one culture.
	www.biculturalfamily.org /ofthedaysArchive.php?pageNum_rsArchive=3&totalRows_rsArchive=95&type=word (3970 words)

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