City-state Definition

City-state Sentence Examples

• Greek culture had been the product of the city-state, and Hellenism could not be dissevered from the city.

• To a Greek it suggested the assembly of freeborn citizens in a city state.

• The only difference from the territorial nation state is that the city state protected trade routes rather than conquered large tracts of territory.

• Instead of the comparatively simple expedients of the barbarian monarchies, as indicated above, the Athenian city state by degrees developed a rather complex revenue system.

• On the whole, however, he adhered to the Greek city-state (7rOXts), partly perhaps out of patriotism to his own Stagira.