Why?Because this is where you find number one the world's biggest chunk of population - really between India and China there you have it, two-thirds the population just settled in this area.

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How could you possibly settle there, because they settled Chalcedon first and the tradition that the Greeks pass on is the people who settle chalcedon were blind men, because you would have to be blind to make that choice.

他们怎么能建立在那个不毛之地呢,因为他们先前在卡尔西顿定居了,根据古希腊的传统记载,住在那里的人都是盲人,因为只有盲人才会去那个地方住

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There is an expansion of the Greek world already by the tenth century, and these folks are now settled down, so that some of these cities are in fact among the most important cities sending out colonies of their own.

希腊世界不停地扩展,一直到10世纪,那些逃亡者才安定下来,因此,这当中的,一些重要城市都拥有自己隶属的殖民地

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