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As well as being the chief city of Argentina Province, Buenos Aires was a Ducal capital -- the first such city Kesley remembered having entered.
He knew the names of the others: Chicago, Tunis, Johannesburg, Stockholm, Canberra, Strasbourg, Kiev, Hankow, Calcutta, Manila, Leopoldville. They were strange and alien names; to him, abstract symbols of Ducal power rather than concrete geographical localities.