Where are you now? Whether you are in a room or in the garden, but either way, there is country under your feet. When you travel, you change countries, but you are always somewhere. Unless, of course, you are targeting the few largely uninhabited areas that no country has yet needed.
If we think back in history, almost all wars broke out because powers, countries, and interest groups wanted to take over more territory than they owned. During colonization, hundreds of thousands of people were sacrificed in order to have an island or other piece of land for themselves. We may think that, after struggles over primacy, and the kidnapping of slaves, and the reference to one another, there will not be a piece of land left on this planet that no one owns. However, we still find no man’s land, in Latin Like the common ground Called
Bir Tawil, Africa
One of the most important examples of no-man’s-land is the 2,060-square-kilometer area on the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and not claimed by either country. And no wonder, because he is one We are talking about an arid desert region, where temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius are not uncommon in the middle of summer. The population of the piece of land is officially zero, although it is frequented by Bedouin tribes such as the Ababda. However, this would not suffice for geographical exoticism, as borders drawn largely by the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were also needed. According to the US State Department, the United Kingdom made an agreement with Egypt in 1899 that the territory south of the 22nd parallel belonged to Sudan, which placed Bir Tawil under Sudanese control.
Everyone thinks it’s someone else
In 1902, the British drew up another plan for the Sudanese-Egyptian border. According to this plan, Bir Tawil was already under Egyptian administration, as the area was sometimes used by the Ababda tribe, who had settled near Aswan in southern Egypt. However, Egypt only wants to abide by the original 1899 delimitation, while Sudan insists on the administrative boundaries of 1902. That is, according to Egypt, Bir al-Tawil is in Sudan, but according to Sudan, it is in Egypt.
Who is not born a princess…
Many people have already tried to claim the wasteland. The strangest of them all was Jeremiah Heaton of Virginia, who in 2014 claimed the land as his own. It is called the Kingdom of North Sudan He intended to assume the royal office himself, as he had previously promised his young daughter that he would make her a princess one day. Unsurprisingly, Heaton’s claim has not been recognized as valid by any official authority. According to another, less absurd idea, Bear Toil could finally belong to its native people, who have learned to adapt to the environment. for severe weatherand are able to settle there.
Mary Beard Land: The mysterious part of Antarctica
As for the other no-man’s land, it is not famous for its heat and deserts, on the contrary. Although, according to international law, Antarctica It is not owned by any countrySeven countries have previously attempted to obtain it: Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. They tried to slice it like a slice of pizza, however to one area No one claimed the land named after Mary Byrd (she was the wife of Richard E. Byrd, the US Navy officer who explored the area). The colossal 1,605,792 square kilometer area is the largest clearing in the world, not least because it is so isolated and impassable even by Antarctica standards. However, from time to time Attracts attentionFor example, its ice rises and falls 6 meters, as if only the earth breathes through it. According to scientists’ theory, volcanic activity under the Earth’s crust may be responsible for this oddity.
Forbidden land on the Hungarian border: Nagy-Ziga
Since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1990, several tracts of land on the eastern bank of the Danube, between the Balkan borders with Croatia and Serbia, have been hotly contested. And on the west bank of the river, on the other hand, in this region, No country claims Gornja Sigá, or Nagy Sigá in Hungarian. The 7 square kilometer forest area acts as a floodplain for the Danube River. Technically, it is under Croatian control, although they claim the area as Serbian, but Serbia does not claim it. As a result, countries neglect the forest, which would not be a problem if we knew what happens to nature once human feet step on it.
Heaven on earth
in April 2015 Liberals A small group led by Czech politician Vet Jedlica decided to occupy the area. The flag has been raised uninhabited On a swampy island a new small country called Liberland was announced. The idea was to turn it into a libertarian utopia with no mandatory taxation, minimal government regulation, and the use of bitcoin as currency. Unfortunately the dream I faced many obstacles. The Croatian authorities were not at all happy with the idea of a small libertarian state next door, so they arrested anyone who set foot in the forest. Liberland So it is only there virtually, but it is there very continuously.
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