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During the supremacy of the Barbary Coast pirates in the 16th and 17th centuries, Formentera was so vulnerable it had to be abandoned, and it wasn’t resettled until the 18th century.
Wandering the side streets at night allows you to soak up the heady atmosphere of pleasure and commerce that has characterized this part of Osaka for centuries.
Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus — and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Jacob Sullum's For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health surveys five centuries of tobacco abolitionism and concludes what tobacco's foes want more than money: They want to see the last butt snuffed out.
In the early centuries of the Christian era, the peninsula’s advantageous position made it an ideal way-station for trade with Bengal and southern India, and attracted Indianized colonies from the Mekong valley of Indochina.