counter-development

Updated: May 16, 2025

Thus Italy was if but indirectly indebted to the Phoenicians for the exemption of at least her central and northern provinces from colonization, and for the counter-development of a national maritime power there, especially in Etruria.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Thus Italy was if but indirectly indebted to the Phoenicians for the exemption of at least her central and northern provinces from colonization, and for the counter-development of a national maritime power there, especially in Etruria.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy