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The decline of the West, Volume 2

Note 671 — Chapter XI · THE STATE (B) STATE AND HISTORY

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

This contrast gives rise to a corresponding contrast in idea of colonization. Whereas, e.g., the Prussian sovereigns invited settlers to their land (Salzburg Protestants, French Huguenots), Gelon forcibly transferred the populations of whole cities into Syracuse, which thus became the first megalopolis of the Classical world (c. 480).

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