History
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1912 | 23,643 | — |
| 1930 | 21,107 | −10.7% |
| 1948 | 31,296 | +48.3% |
| 1956 | 32,486 | +3.8% |
| 1966 | 45,397 | +39.7% |
| 1977 | 76,686 | +68.9% |
| 1992 | 115,259 | +50.3% |
| 2002 | 104,035 | −9.7% |
| 2011 | 86,475 | −16.9% |
| Source: Census data | ||
The first written document, mentioning the city 1,870 years earlier, was commemorated in 1992.
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“The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–117)
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The true theater of history is therefore the temperate zone.”
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