- Extraterritorial crossroad
In a
country that is split into two or more non-adjacent parts, with another country in between, an extraterritorial crossroad is a strip of land that formally belongs to neither country, or with other special arrangements. Often these strips of land are to be formally administered by theUnited Nations .Examples of extraterritorial crossroads include:
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Germany afterWorld War I . ThePolish corridor to theBaltic Sea separatedEast Prussia from the rest of Germany. East Prussians chose for their area to remain a German enclave. TheSeedienst Ostpreußen provided transport as trains on the Polish controlled formerPrussian Eastern Railway section were rather slow. Poles declined Hitler's proposals to built an extraterritorialAutobahn , theDanzig Corridor *
Germany afterWorld War II . By land,West Berlin could only be accessed by transit roads through theGDR Extraterritorial crossroads were proposed in:
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1947 UN Partition Plan of Palestine to connect the sections of the Arab state together and to connect sections of the Jewish State together* Some peace plans for former Yugoslavia
Extraterritorial crossroads can be compared to
buffer zone s such as the one inCyprus . Buffer zones are legally similar, but the purpose is to separate two countries, rather than to facilitate movement.ee also
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Demilitarized zone
*Enclave and exclave
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