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  2. City-state - Wikipedia

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    A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. [1] They have existed in many parts of the world throughout history, including cities such as Rome, Carthage, Athens and Sparta and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan.

  3. List of terms for administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    state Land Germany (official term) state lieu-dit France: place name linn Estonia: town or city lugar Cape Verde: division of zona in Cape Verde Portugal: hamlet lungsod Philippines: city maakond Estonia: county մարզ Armenia: province or region mahoz Israel: district mancomunidad Spain: association of municipalities, commonwealth merindad

  4. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    Washington, in the Pacific Northwest, was the 42nd state admitted to the union.; Thirty-one of the 50 United States are home to a Washington County.; There are more than 200 Washington Townships in the United States, including five (plus one Washington Borough) in the state of New Jersey.

  5. List of U.S. cities named after their state - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of U.S. cities (or census-designated areas) named for the state in which they are located. Locations which are no longer functioning cities (including former cities and present ghost towns) are marked with an asterisk (*).

  6. Polis - Wikipedia

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    Coulanges work was followed by the innovation of the English city-state by W. Warde Fowler in 1893. [17] The Germans had already invented the word in their own language: Stadtstaat, "city-state", referring to the many one-castle principates that abounded at the time. The name was applied to the polis by Herder in 1765. Fowler anglicised it: "It ...

  7. Civitas - Wikipedia

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    Over the centuries the usage broadened into a spectrum of meaning cited by the larger Latin dictionaries: [5] it could mean in addition to the citizenship established by the constitution the legal city-state, or res publica, the populus of that res publica (not people as people but people as citizens), any city state either proper or state-like ...

  8. Is This The Worst 1-Word Text Message You Can Possibly ... - AOL

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    This May, the New York City-based comedian shared a screenshot of this conversation on X, formerly Twitter, and received more than 11,000 likes. The “sure” haters rose up to share how ...

  9. Lists of cities - Wikipedia

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    List of cities surrounded by another city; List of cities by GDP; List of cities by elevation; List of cities by time of continuous habitation; List of cities proper by population; List of cities with the most skyscrapers; List of cities with more than one commercial airport; List of city name changes; List of largest cities throughout history