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Cities and their relations with the national states of XVI century at Brodelja:Femand Braudel, The Mediterranean, vol. 1 (New York: Harper AND Row, 1972), pp.
315 - 352.] In other cultures not to find anything similar to that freedom Self-management which has been reached and it was long supported in these The European cities and cities-states. The nearest predecessors - and Besides in Europe - there were Greek cities-states which prospered in VI - IV centuries B.C. Anything enough close not to find in the great Civilisations of Asia or the Muslim world. As Max Veber has noted, for Cities, as complete formations "did not exist West limits". ["Out of
The West there were no cities in sense of uniform formations. In their Middle Ages
The availability of own law and court, and any were characteristic features The self-management form ". Weber, General Economic History, p. 261.] One of The famous British economists sir John Hiks considers a city-state The unique western phenomenon, "gift of the Mediterranean" which was no time Simultaneously a great trading way and the location "well protected"
Cities-states. ["That fact that the western civilisation has passed through a phase
Cities-states, there is a basic key to distinction of historical ways Europe and Asia. The reasons of it mainly the geographical. European
The city-state is gift of the Mediterranean. From the point of view of the technical
The conditions saved on an extent it of a part of written history,
The Mediterranean had outstanding significance as a crossroads of roads between
The countries standing at very different steps of development of production; except
That, this region is rich with narrow mountain valleys and cracks, islands and capes,
Which during former times were easy for defending. In Asia it was not simple anything
Comparable on riches of possibilities. "(Hicks, A Theory of Economic History,
p. 235)] Dutch and it cities-states, of course, would challenge the such
Interpretation of history which transforms them into gift of the Mediterranean, and, can
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