stackyFACTSA minor drafting error in a seventeenth-century treaty accidentally left the town of Llívia completely isolated. The agreement ceded all 'villages' to the French, but locals argued they were technically a 'town', so they stayed Spanish. Now, getting to the rest of their own country requires a deeply awkward commute through a foreign nation.
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