Tavolara Island off the eastern coast of Sardinia was once an independent kingdom. There's NATO radiogoniometric station at the eastern half of the island with two high aerials.
Tavolara Island off the eastern coast of Sardinia was once an independent kingdom. There's NATO radiogoniometric station at the eastern half of the island with two high aerials.
Here is a reference to Tavolara and other microstates in the children's annual "Chatterbox" (ca. 1910?). Andorra, of course, still exists.
THREE TINY REPUBLICS
The largest of these three little-known Republics is that of Andorra, situated in a fertile valley of the Eastern Pyrenees. It holds a kind of independent position between France and Spain, and it has seven thousand inhabitants. Its capital is Andorra, on the river Bulira.
Andorra was made a free state by Charlemagne, in the ninth century, as a reward for services rendered to him by its inhabitants when he was marching against the Moors. The Andorrans are pleasant, hospitable people, who amidst their vines and forests and enclosing mountains live a very simple life.
The island Republic of Tavolara, a free and self-governing state, is a mere strip of land, five miles long and half a mile wide, lying off the northern coast of Sardinia.
But the tiniest Republic is that of St. Goust, with an area of barely one square mile! Its people (one hundred and thirty in number) live always in peace, thanks to their residence in such an inaccessible part of the Basses-Pyrenees. For the last two thousand years they have governed themselves by means of a council of twelve "Elders." The President of the Council is tax-collector, assessor, and judge.
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THREE TINY REPUBLICS
The largest of these three little-known Republics is that of Andorra, situated in a fertile valley of the Eastern Pyrenees. It holds a kind of independent position between France and Spain, and it has seven thousand inhabitants. Its capital is Andorra, on the river Bulira.
Andorra was made a free state by Charlemagne, in the ninth century, as a reward for services rendered to him by its inhabitants when he was marching against the Moors. The Andorrans are pleasant, hospitable people, who amidst their vines and forests and enclosing mountains live a very simple life.
The island Republic of Tavolara, a free and self-governing state, is a mere strip of land, five miles long and half a mile wide, lying off the northern coast of Sardinia.
But the tiniest Republic is that of St. Goust, with an area of barely one square mile! Its people (one hundred and thirty in number) live always in peace, thanks to their residence in such an inaccessible part of the Basses-Pyrenees. For the last two thousand years they have governed themselves by means of a council of twelve "Elders." The President of the Council is tax-collector, assessor, and judge.