In my last game a Mob from the wildlands destroyed a city of mine. To my surprise, I could not resettle the land (i.e. no fertile ground left behind).
When I settled the town originally I owned a town to the NW but nothing else. When the town was destroyed I had captured an AI city nearby to the south. Are there different rules for city proximity to your own towns vs. an enemy's town?
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Should the land have returned to it's previous fertile state? (bug?)