What is the Greek word and definition for city state?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

A city can be part of an independent state/country, which might have several or many cities within it.

A city-state is an independent single city which owns land around it, hence it is called a city-state (use a hyphen). Examples today are Monaco, Brunei and Singapore.

Answer 3

Political entities centered on a single city and the surrounding territory. Most notably Athens and Sparta.

Answer 4

the term in ancient Greek is "πόλις - κράτος" (pòlis-kràtos)

Answer 5

A Greek city-state culture was an isolated city that held its own ideas and traditions.

Answer 6

A polis is a city state in Greece

Answer 7

polis