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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.
Aswan became a backwater following the decline of the Egyptian Empire, far removed from power bases at Alexandria and Cairo.
In 1986 Portugal, the former poor backwater of Europe, joined the European Economic Community (now the European Union, or EU).
In modern times the Sinai had become a backwater protected from the ravages of the modern world, and perhaps it would have remained one of the world’s undiscovered spots if it hadn’t been for one invention: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA).
For a half millennium or more, Madrid idled as a provincial backwater, rarely noticed on the arid central plains of Castile, until Felipe II plucked it from his royal cap in 1561 and proclaimed it the capital of Spain.