Baarle-Nassau

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Baarle-Nassau

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mapsize = 280px
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Netherlands
subdivision_type1 = Province
subdivision_name1 = North Brabant
area_footnotes = (2006)
area_total_km2 = 76.30
area_land_km2 = 76.27
area_water_km2 = 0.03
population_as_of = 1 January, 2007
population_note = Source: CBS, [http://statline.cbs.nl/ Statline] .
settlement_type = Municipality
population_total = 6668
population_density_km2 = 87
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2

Baarle-Nassau (pronunciation|174 Baarle-Nassau.ogg) is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands.

It is closely linked, with complicated borders, to the Belgian exclaves of Baarle-Hertog. Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate pieces of land. Apart from the main piece (called "Zondereigen") located north of the Belgian town of Merksplas, there are 22 Belgian exclaves in the Netherlands and three other pieces on the Dutch-Belgian border. There are also six Dutch exclaves located within the largest Belgian exclave, one within the second-largest, and an eighth within Zondereigen. The smallest Belgian parcel, H22, measures 2,632 square metres.

The complex border situation is a result of a number of equally complex medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. Generally speaking, predominantly agricultural or built environments became constituents of Brabant, other parts devolved to Breda. These distributions were ratified and clarified as a part of the borderline settlements arrived at during the Treaty of Maastricht in 1843.

Population centres

*Baarle-Nassau (population: 5,330)
*Ulicoten (1,110)
*Castelré (140)

External links

* [http://www.baarle-nassau.nl Official Web site Baarle-Nassau] (in Dutch)
* [http://www.baarle-hertog.be Official Web site Baarle-Hertog] (in Dutch)
* [http://www.grenspalen.nl/archief/baarle-enclaves%20outlined.html maps]
* [http://www.grenspalen.nl/archief/baarle-enclave-h22-outlined.jpgPhotograph of the smallest enclave]
* [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//baarle.htm Baarle-Nassau / Baarle-Hertog] (with maps)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060721133845/http://www.borderlandtv.com/photos_2.html Photos from Baarle-Nassau/Hertog]
* [http://english.baarledigitaal.org/ English Website about the Baarle Enclaves / with maps]
* [http://www.baarledigitaal.org/ Dutch pages about Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau / with maps]
* [http://www.grenzen.150m.com/baarleD.htm page with various pictures of border curiosities in the town]