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city-state
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cit·y-state (st-stt)
n.
A sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.
city-state
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies. Among the most famous are the great independent cities of the ancient world, such as Athens, Sparta, Carthage, and Rome
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Noun1.city-state - a state consisting of a sovereign city
city state
body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
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city-state [ˈsɪtɪˌsteɪt] N → ciudad-estado f
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For example, when the Persian empire sought to invade Greece in 300 BCE, the Persian emperor Darius crafted a clever strategic communication plan that sought to divide the Greek citystates and offered reasonably benign terms to any state willing to sign on with the Persians.
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