"Ross" wrote in message
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I keep referring to "settlement" because nowhere starts out as a city.
e.g.
London.


What!?
London was never one or two huts on the bank of the river?
Some quotes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_London

"...despite intensive excavations, archaeologists have found no evidence of
a prehistoric major settlement in the area.There have been scattered
prehistoric finds, evidence of farming, burial and traces of habitation, but
nothing more substantial. It is now considered unlikely that a pre-Roman
city existed, but as some of the Roman city remains unexcavated, it is still
just possible that some settlement may yet be discovered." - see the word
"settlement"?

"Archaeologists now believe that London was founded as a civilian settlement
by 50 AD."

Gerrit - Perth