List of Enclaves and Exclaves - Historic Enclaves/exclaves

Historic Enclaves/exclaves

• South west coast of South Jeolla Province was exclave of Taebong, Goryeo between 903 to 936.
• Maine was an exclave of Massachusetts between 1652 and 1820.
• Altona was a Danish enclave in Germany between 1640 and 1864.
• Bremen-Verden, Swedish Pomerania, and Wismar, Swedish enclaves in Germany after the Peace of Westphalia.
• Cheikh Saïd - former French enclave near Aden
• Comtat Venaissin
• Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch formed an exclave at county level, as a part of the Scottish county of Dunbartonshire sandwiched between Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire. The exclave was dissolved after the municipal reforms of 1975.
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli
• Despotate of the Morea, exclave of the Byzantine Empire
• Dudley in the West Midlands, England, was an exclave at municipal level, being in a part of the county of Worcestershire surrounded by Staffordshire. Upon the local government reforms of 1974, the exclave was dissolved.
• East Pakistan (1955–1971), now Bangladesh, was an exclave from Islamic Republic of Pakistan, if one considers West Pakistan, site of the capital Islamabad, mainland. There were 1600 kilometers of foreign territory separating the east and west wings of Pakistan. East Pakistan accounted for 70% of the exports of the country and was more populous than West Pakistan.
• East Prussia, a German exclave during the Weimar Republic: it was separated from Germany after World War I, when Poland regained access to the Baltic Sea (Polish corridor). East Prussia (essentially the old Duchy of Prussia) is now divided into Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia (see above), the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship in Poland, and Klaipėda County in Lithuania.
• Forbidden City - The last emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China, Emperor Henry Puyi, succeeded the throne in 1909. In 1911, revolution broke out and the Qing army was defeated. According to the treaty signed between the Qing court and the government of the newly formed Republic of China (ROC), Puyi preserved the emperor title and alongside other rights, maintained certain government organs in the Forbidden City mainly for management of the Forbidden City and other palaces, management of imperial families, etc. Inside the Forbidden City it still flew the Dragon Flag of the Qing Dynasty. In 1924, the treaty signed in 1911 was revised unilaterally by the ROC government, abolishing the Puyi's title of Emperor, his right to live in the Forbidden City and other related arrangements.
• Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá a Portuguese enclave within Dahomey/Benin until 1961 (de facto) and 1975 (de jure).
• Furness in England was an exclave of the county of Lancashire, known as "Lancashire-beyond-the-Sands" until 1974, when it became part of Cumbria.
• Gwadar - until 1958, Omani coastal enclave inside Pakistan
• Lado Enclave
• Ifni
• Turkey - The Tomb of Suleyman Shah, located in or near Qal'at Ja'bar in modern-day Syria, was considered a Turkish territory in accordance with the Treaty of Ankara. The tomb has been relocated in 1973 after the creation of Lake Assad.
• Kowloon Walled City - enclave inside Kowloon, Hong Kong. Question of jurisdiction led to hands-off approach adopted by the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom until solution was agreed upon.
• Kwang-Chou-Wan
• Maelor Rural District was an exclave of the Welsh county of Flintshire, bounded on three sides by England and on the west by the Welsh county of Denbighshire, until 1974 when the local administrative system was altered. It is now part of Wrexham.
• Mount Scopus (in Jerusalem) was an Israeli exclave in Jordan between 1948 and 1967, before being reunited with West Jerusalem following the Six Day War. It is still an exclave on a political level, since Israel's annexation of the connecting territory is unrecognized.
• Port Arthur
• Pagiriai - 1,7 km² Lithuanian exclave ceded to Belarus in 1996
• Portuguese India
• Jiaozhou Bay
• Shanghai - British and American Concessions (later Shanghai International Settlement), and Shanghai French Concession
• Town Line, New York - voted 85 to 40 to secede from the United States in 1861, becoming an exclave of the Confederate States of America; formally reincorporated into the U.S. in 1946.
• Verenahof
• Walvis Bay was a South African exclave in Namibia, before being transferred from South African jurisdiction and incorporated with Namibia in 1994, four years after that country's independence.
• Wei-Hai-Wei
• West Berlin, before the reunification of Germany, was de facto a West German exclave, enclaved by East Germany. Many small West Berlin land areas, such as Steinstücken, were in turn separated from the main body of West Berlin, some by only a few meters. De jure all of Berlin was ruled by the four Allied powers (as an enclave of East Germany); this meant that West Berlin could not send voting members to the German Parliament, and that its citizens were exempt from conscription.
• Zadar
• Various historical foreign concessions.
• Siheung County - After the independence of Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, Gwacheon, Gunpo, Uiwang, Ansan, Siheung was enclave. Abolish of Siheung County, the enclave was dissolved.