Title: Groupoids, the Phragmen-Brouwer Property, and the Jordan Curve Theorem Author: Ronald Brown Author's e-mail address: r.brown at bangor.ac.uk Author's mailing address: Mathematics Department, School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT, UK Author's web site: www.bangor.ac.uk/r.brown Preprint: University of Wales Math Preprint 06.01 Abstract: We publicise a proof of the Jordan Curve Theorem which relates it to the Phragmen-Brouwer Property, and whose proof uses the van Kampen theorem for the fundamental groupoid on a set of base points.