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The Byzantine Empire had powerful and well-fortified cities, but the countryside and the outlying islands were ravaged by waves of invaders.
A rare survivor in a land constantly ravaged by so many invasions, it is claimed to be the oldest in Hungary.
Couldn't Soutine's eruptive, vertiginous landscapes be construed as recollections of a ravaged Europe, or even as the foreshadowing of an apocalyptic, post-atomic future?
Badly planned, poorly made, and apt to burst into flames--no, not prime-time TV (although I, for one, would be more likely to watch Ally McBeal if the law firm were more frequently devastated by fatal explosions, or the nightly news if furious grease fires now and then ravaged Peter Jennings' hair).
Two French pirate ships first ravaged the village in 1528.