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Polis
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". ... The body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient Greece.
The idea of a unified Greece under one government is a modern construction. Ancient Greece was a region, not one country. The various cities, such as Athens, Thebes, Sparta, Corinth, Megara, Delphi, Pylos, etc. each ruled themselves independently of one another, leading each to be called a city-state, since the city and the surrounding countryside were independent of other states. Since the city-states were all independent, they each had their own form of government.
Stato del Citta del Vaticano. State of the City of the Vatican. The Papal region in Rome.
A political unit made up of a city and surrounding villages is called a metropolitan area or urban agglomeration.
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A city is a densely populated human habitation. A state is a land which is a political entity which is self-governing. A city-state is a city which is also an independent self-governing state.
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A city-state.
An independent town or city in the surrounding countryside is called a "rural municipality" or "countryside municipality." These entities govern smaller regions outside of major urban centers and typically have their own local government and administration structure.
Each city-state included a city, villages, and fields surrounding it.
A city-state is an independent or autonomous entity not administered as a part of another local government whose territory consists of a city and possibly its surrounding territory.
A city-state is a sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.