city state

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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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Aegina
body politic
Carthage
city-state
commonwealth
first family

free city
Greece
Phenicia
Phoenicia
polis
res publica

Aristotle in his Constitutions had made a study of one hundred and fifty-eight constitutions of the states of his day, and the fruits of that study are seen in the continual reference to concrete political experience, which makes the Politics in some respects a critical history of the workings of the institutions of the Greek city state.

A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context

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