.

KGRKJGETMRETU895U-589TY5MIGM5JGB5SDFESFREWTGR54TY

Server : Apache/2.4.62
System : FreeBSD fbsdweb2.web.rcn.net 14.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE releng/14.1-n267679-10e31f0946d8 GENERIC amd64
User : www ( 80)
PHP Version : 8.3.8
Disable Function : NONE
Directory : /domains/markrose/atlas/

Upload File :

Current File : /domains/markrose/atlas/3480b.htm

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>3480b</TITLE>
<style>
	h2
		{color:#9C8900;}
	h3
		{color:#9C8900;}
	h4
		{color:#9C8900;}
</style>
</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">

<h3>3480 B &#8212; The lowest rank of cities</h3>

<i>For ease of reading, the lowest rank of cities from 3480 is labelled on this map.</i>

<p>Our map contains an interesting mixture of new cities and old.  Some of the cities of the Xengi, including Inex, &#x0160;inj, Nioruni, and Sie&#x0161;, have been continuously inhabited for close to five thousand years (their Wede:i names were Weinexi, &#x0160;inji, Na:iwor, and Sai&#x015b;i).  Many of the cities of Skouras are three thousand years old.  The very year gives the age of &#x017d;&eacute;sifo, but somewhat misleadingly; for centuries after its founding Ctesifos (later Ctesifon) was but a village.  Ar&aacute;nicer (Araunicoros) is a better example of cities of this vintage.

<p>In many cases history has favored newer cities over the ancient ones: Verd&uacute;ria, Curau, Brundau, and Dusilim are very old cities, but were overshadowed by other names in ancient times.  Perhaps the unlikeliest success stories are the cities of Bel&#x0161;ai, once a marginal mountain land, now a land of prosperity and high culture.

<p>At the other extreme are towns less than two hundred years old: Omiye, Nouaseuae, Kurumim, Le&aacute;n, Girona Verd&uacute;r&euml;; not much older are Lae-Atu (on the Alfonine coast north of the map) and Eor.  These are frontier towns, the result of colonization, or trade, or the extension of civilization to new peoples.

<p>The reader may wonder why a large town, <b>Nouaseuae</b>, has appeared in the middle of the savanna.  In fact its location is determined by geography and technology: it is as far up the Rau river as oceangoing vessels can penetrate.  It was a natural spot for a trading post, which became a kingdom, gathering and controlling trade further upriver.


</BODY></HTML>

Anon7 - 2021