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the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II volume I
At the end of the fourteenth century, the Mediterranean belonged to its towns, to the city-states scattered around its shores. There were of course already, here and there, a few territorial states, fairly homogeneous in character and comparatively large, bordering the sea itself: the Kingdom of Naples'il Reame the outstanding example; the Byzantine Empire; or the possessions united under the Crown of Aragon. But in many cases, these staies were merely the extensions of powerful cities: Aragon in the broad sense was a by-product of the dynamic rise of Barcelona; the Byzantine Empire consisted almost entirely of the extended suburbs of two cities, Constantinople and Salonica.rn
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