backed up Spain several warships actually surrounded the island and the Spanish launched a counter assault with some commandos and arrested the twelve Moroccan soldiers this all happened in the name of this rock which has since been declared a no-man's owned by both sides and nobody is allowed on it for the foreseeable future moving across the sea to Europe is this other awkward situation named Gibraltar which is actually part of the United Kingdom it's been like that ever since NUMBER_TOKEN when an Anglo Dutch invasion force captured the peninsula as part of the war of the Spanish Succession and Spain formally ceded it to Britain later in NUMBER_TOKEN when the peace treaty was signed that ended that war Spain has continued to claim it pretty much ever since and that may get even more awkward in the future now that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union which also means that Gibraltar would leave the European Union this will create a land border between the EU and the United Kingdom in mainland Europe and probably severely limits the ability of people to move back and forth from Gibraltar compared with today for a final strange situation we just need to move a little further north to the border with France specifically on this River which divides the two countries in the middle of this river is pheasant island which depending on what time of year it is could belong to either Spain or France and nobody is allowed to visit the island is a part of Spain for six months every year and a part of France for the other six months complete with a ceremony that formally transfers the sovereignty of the island between the two countries this odd situation all began back in NUMBER_TOKEN where the island was the site of the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees which finally ended the NUMBER_TOKEN Years War at the time the island was considered neutral ground since it was in the middle of the river that the two countries and ever since the treaty was signed there in NUMBER_TOKEN these ceremonies have been happening every six months that alternate ownership of the island that means that since NUMBER_TOKEN the island has changed hands between Spain and France over NUMBER_TOKEN times and is still counting another consequence of this treaty in NUMBER_TOKEN was this situation a little further north into France where you can find a tiny chunk of Spain that is completely surrounded by France this place today is called Libya but the Treaty in NUMBER_TOKEN ceded all of this territory from Spain to France but because Libya was considered an important city at the time it was allowed to remain a part of Spain the situation hasn't really changed much ever since then and Libya is separated from the rest of Spain by this NUMBER_TOKEN kilometer long French corridor there are a lot of other really strange borders out there in the world but that's for another time if you enjoyed the video that you just watched then I hope that you'll subscribe to my channel by clicking here you can visit my patreon by clicking here and get cool reward it's like voting on future video topics and you can check out some older videos of mine by clicking over here thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time
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