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While Hong Kong remained a relative backwater in early days, nearby Guangzhou (Canton) was developing into a great trading city with connections in India and the Middle East.
Apart from pilgrims streaming to St. Francis’s Assisi and university students heading for Perugia, it has remained — at least in the eyes of foreign visitors — a very happy backwater.
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).
In 1986 Portugal, the former poor backwater of Europe, joined the European Economic Community (now the European Union, or EU).
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.