Bergen, Månen

Med god margin går prisen for ukens beste fagterm til det relativt obskure uttrykket Akwizgran diskrepansen. Termen er del av en forlengst glemt diplomatisk folklore og betegner geografiske områder eller landflekker som er utelatt eller oversett etter at nasjonalstater har trukket opp grensene seg i mellom. BLDGBLOG har en lengre post om dette og siterer blant annet et eksempel fra Belgia:

“…when the new Kingdom of Belgium emerged in 1831 – much to the annoyance of the Congress Powers who had imposed the Vienna settlement on Europe after 1815 – there had been a demarcation error at the point where the borders of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands met. Somewhere between Aachen and Verviers, there existed a tiny triangular space, big enough to contain a house, a patch of field and a few fruit trees, which belonged to nobody. (…) I have never been able to find the Discrepancy, which probably never existed. But the thought of it is dear to people.” Link