"During the reign of six monarchs (Charles VI, ascended 1711, to Franz Joseph I, died 1916), the Habsburgs transformed a medieval fishing town [Trieste] into a modern industrial seaport, with a population that had grown from some 7,000 to 220,000. Perhaps the nearest equivalent is Hong Kong, founded by the British in 1840, and equally eruptive."
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