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I've read that tax laws enacted by Diocletian made some large landholders turn away from trade/move more towards production on their own lands; which in turn gave rise to the beginnings of Duchies after the fall of the Western Empire. To what extent is this true, how did duchies form?

by /u/manfrin in /r/AskHistorians

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