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Athens and Sparta .
There were not just 14 states. At different times, there were different numbers. Here are some of them: Athens, Corinth, Thebes, Argos, Mycenae, Sparta, Knossos, Gortys, Phaestos, Pella, Potidea They spanned the entire Aegean sea. Look at slide # 2 on this website: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9266839/Ancient-Greece-CityStates
Greece
The word Greece comes from the Latin name for the country of Greece or Graecia. The Greek culture actually calls Greece "Ellada. "
Democracy had its origins in ancient Greece.