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 | | In the 17th century, sources reveal that conflict was balanced by a far greater capacity for cooperation and co-existence. |
| | One need only recall the numerous instances in which ethnically and religiously diverse towns in the Grand Duchy rallied together to rout the enemy, as Sluck, Mahilou, Krycau or Stary Bychau, to cite only a few examples. |
| | Finally, the fact that in later centuries the towns of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania did not keep up the same tempo of development as their counterparts in the Crown and further West, does not in any way undermine the fact of their vitality in the 17th century. |
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