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Billabong is first recorded in the 1830s in southeastern New South Wales as a name in the Wiradhuri language for a watercourse which flows after rain, and hence any backwater, blind creek, or anabranch left in the arm of a river, a pool which is left when the connecting stream dries up.
Egypt became a backwater, even more so as the Ottoman Empire went into chronic terminal decline in the 18th century, with a series of crises that local mamelukes were unable to control.
"Within ten years the country has changed from being an isolated backwater into the chief departure terminal for Europe's drug trade."
Rather than live in some backwater, they jet in and out for rehearsals and conduct 30 performances a year there instead of 100.
During his reign Palestine flourished, but his successors proved less able, and over the next four centuries the country continuously declined to become a virtual backwater.