#exclave

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(sorry its messy, i got exhausted by the end :,] )

ARTFIGHT ATTACK ON @whey-isolate ! GET ATTACKED IDIOT!!! <33333

PLEASE go check out their stuff if you are interested! They are not only an amazing artist, but an awesome writer and worldbuilding. Currently getting very invested in their 'Exclave' lore ;))

Character: Wei of Nimar

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Flag for Cabinda, currently an exclave of Angola, if it was its own country

from /r/vexillology Top comment: In case you didn't know, there's a territory called [Cabinda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinda_Province), named after its capital. It's currently an exclave of Angola, but at some point in history it was known as Portuguese Congo. I took inspiration from [different flags claimed to represent the territory](https://i.imgur.com/hwK5nB6.png). The [symbol in the centre](https://jornalf8.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/simulambuco-flec.jpg) is a monument for the Treaty of Simulambuco, where the current shape of the territory got decided on. It's reminiscent of a [padrão](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padr%C3%A3o), a Portuguese symbol of possession. History in a nutshell: Portugal fused the two colonies of Cabinda and Angola together at some point, and after Angola became independent, they took Cabinda with them, even though there were unrelated independence movements in that region. Since then there has been a small independence war going on. And Angola doesn't want the region to become independent for, let's say, oil reasons.

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A fun geography thing:

The territory of Madha.

So we're looking at the United Arab Emirates and the borders it shares with Oman here (Oman to the SSE and NNE). Just off of the East coast to the NNW of Fujairah you can see that fun border. That's Madha.

Madha is an Omani exclave in the UAE. Exclaves aren't too uncommon but: Nahwa, the second-order enclave inside of it, is. There are currently only two places in the world with second-order enclaves: Madha and an absolute mess of an area in the Netherlands/Belgium.

The roads are connected and the borders are soft so it's not the biggest issue in the world. But if you were an Omani from down the coast in, say, Sohar to the SSE, to visit Nahwa Cave you would have to cross the border into the UAE, cross the border into Oman, then cross the border into the UAE. Fun!

Why did this happen? Basically, the leaders of 4 rival clans (that included an Omani clan and the clans that represented 3 different UAE emirates) gathered folks from Madha in late 1930's/early 1940's and asked them to pledge allegiance to one of them. The Madha people pledged allegiance to the Omani clan, but people from Nahwa chose to stay loyal to the Sharjah clan (a part of the modern day UAE). Later on when the ol' colonizing tea drinkers controlled the territories (1969), the borders were officially established. Woo!

And here's that Nahwa Cave! (source)

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Hatta Hill Park

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Strano ma vero, le exclavi non sono fantasia

Esistono frazioni appartenenti ad una regione ma si trovano in un’altra.

Una exclave è un territorio che si trova in uno stato diverso da quello a cui appartiene politicamente: Campione d’Italia, per fare un esempio noto, è l’unica exclave italiana, confinando interamente con la Svizzera. L’oblast’ di Kaliningrad è un altro tipico esempio di exclave: è quella porzione di territorio tra…

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Ceuta, ESP AF (2018)

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Ceuta, ESP AF (2018)

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Ceuta, ESP AF (2018)