Premise: The second most charming and lively of the coast's resorts, Amalfi was once a powerful rival to the maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa, with trading posts in the 10th and 11th centuries in Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus, Byzantium, and Tunis.

Hypothesis: Amalfi has traditionally been an isolationist city, and has shunned interaction with their hostile neighbors.
Relation: contradiction