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Excerpt from Great Cities of the World: In Their Glory and in Their Desolation, Embracing Cities of Europe, Asia, Africa and America; With a History of Important Events of Their Time The idea of this work was suggested by Buckley's Great Cities of the Ancient World, and to his pages I am indebted for a considerable portion of what relates to ancient cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.