Boutographies
Ville de Montpellier
In the heyday of its medieval glory, Montpellier had settlements in Tyre, Saint-Jean d’Acre, Tripoli [Lebanon] and even in Armenia. She would also welcome many foreign masters and students, so much so that in the middle of the 14th century, the medical students from Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium[ Flanders] were twice as many as the French ones.
In its days, Montpellier had managed to combine being both a market city and a city of knowledge, which was quite unusual for the Mediterranean Europe. This double aptitude is still true today. The bonds thus created do not only concern university life, because in these days of European construction and decentralization, cities have to assert their international strategy.
This gives sense to the multilateral links with several cities throughout the world, founded on the past, on common interests or even development similarities. This vision also implies the presence of the City of Montpellier in many networks and associations tending to bring communities from all over the world together. To make it short, a Montpellier-like kind of multilateralism...
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