Talk:Maastricht
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Maastricht is not the oldest city of the Netherlands. The discussions on this subject concluded a couple of years ago that Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands.
- Discussions like this never conclude. It depends a lot on what you mean by "city" and whether the present-day city is truely a continuation of the ancient settlement.
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- Discussions indeed came to no conclusion, but it is clear what the arguments are. Nijmegen was the first with Roman city rights; Maastricht the first with Medieval city rights. I incorporated this in the article. Piotr Kapretski 13:59, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Maastricht is the oldest city and not else! Nijmegen maybe got the Roman city rights title first, but Maastricht was founded much earlier and was a city much earlier! By the way; this is an endless discussion in the Netherlands ;-)
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[edit] Autonomous area?
I seem to recall there was an area near the present German-Dutch-Belgian junction that was forgotten by the Congress of Vienna and thus was not assigned to any state until the treaties after 1918. Was it Maastrict? If not where was it and what was it called? --StanZegel 07:07, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- No, it was Neutral Moresnet, near the Dutch-Belgian-German three-country border point, and between the Belgian village of Moresnet and the Dutch village of Vaals. Some 5,000 people lived there by 1900 and it was a refuge for free-thinkers. Maastricht has been in the Netherlands ever since 1815 and as an enclave within Belgian area from 1830-1839.--Caesarion 14:25, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Photograph
The photograph of the Maasticht skyline [1] is a nice photograph, but not very illustrative of Maastricht. The skyline-idea could work quite well, though. Maybe next time I'm in town I'll take one. DirkvdM 19:04, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Verify
Could someone verify if anything in Berg en Terblijt is correct, and if so, clean it up a bit. I don't know enough about it or the language to improve the article. Thanks - Taxman Talk 20:45, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Disambiguation?
I think it would be useful to have one of those bars at the top of the page that read: "This article refers to the city of Maastricht. For the political treaty, click here." [That's how I got to this page, lol] I don't know how to set that up, though, could someone help me out? Nicolasdz 11:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
![[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maastricht_skyline.jpg){kind=link}