Well attestedNamed from the place
Schengen Area
noun · first attested 1985
Free movement for hundreds of millions is named for a village of a few hundred.
The group of European states that have abolished passport checks at their shared borders.
49.4700°N 6.3600°E · Q183841
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1985
- Part of speech
- noun
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Schengen
- In English
Schengen Area
The founding agreement was signed in 1985 aboard a boat on the Moselle at Schengen, a wine-growing village in Luxembourg chosen because it sits where three countries meet. The village still has a few hundred residents and a small museum about the treaty.