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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.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 6y agoA 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.
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∙ 15y agoPolitical entities centered on a single city and the surrounding territory. Most notably Athens and Sparta.
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∙ 13y agothe term in ancient Greek is "πόλις - κράτος" (pòlis-kràtos)
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∙ 10y agoA Greek city-state culture was an isolated city that held its own ideas and traditions.
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∙ 14y agopolis
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What was another name for a Greek city-state?
Polis is a word. It means Greek city state.
The greek word polis means?
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What is the Greek word for the word Power and its definition?
Dynami! and it means power/strength...
What word with a Greek root means a sleeplike state?
Hypnosis is from the Greek root Hypnos, the Greek personification of sleep whose twin was Thánatos, or death.
What is the name of the large hill around which Greek city-states were built?
Many Greek cities were built on a rocky hill called an acropolis. The name acropolis was from the Greek word akros, meaning highest, and polis, meaning city.
What is the definition of the word polis?
It's Greek for city.
What was another name for a Greek city-state?
Polis is a word. It means Greek city state.
How is a polis similar from a city-state?
Polis is a greek word for city-state.
What is greek word for city state?
Polis
What the greek word for a city state?
polis
What is a Greek word for city-state?
polis
What is a Greek word for a city-state?
polis
WHAT IS THE GREEK WORD FOR A city state?
polis
What is the greek word for a city-state?
polis
What does a polis mean?
its a greek word for city- state :)
What is the greek word for city state?
One city-state is a polis. Poleis is plural.
What is polis?
Polis is the Greek word for political city-state. The term refers to the political, social and cultural center of the different Greek city-states.
