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noun - an ancient Greek city-state
POLIS - Polis (; Greek: pro noun ced [pólis]), plural poleis (, [póles]), literally means city in Greek. It can also mean a body of citizens. In modern his...
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| A city-state of ancient Greece. |
| a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes. |
| a city-state in ancient Greece |
| A city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes. |
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| Polis, Jawa Barat, INDONESIA |
| Polis, Mbomou, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC |
| Polis, Van, TURKEY |
| Polis, Elbasan, ALBANIA |
| Polis, Paphos, CYPRUS |
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Polis (; Greek: pronounced [pólis]), plural poleis (, [póles]), literally means city in Greek. It can also mean a body of citizens. In modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". These cities consisted of a fortified city centre built on an acropolis or harbor and controlled surrounding territories of land (khôra). * The Ancient Greek city-state developed during the Archaic period as the ancestor of city, state, and citizenship and persisted (though with decreasing influence) well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning "citizenhood", while municipium applied to a non-sovereign local entity. The term "city-state", which originated in English (alongside the German Stadtstaat), does not fully translate the Greek term. The poleis were not like other primordial ancient city-states like Tyre or Sidon, which were ruled by |