HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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a big city
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a city and the surrounding areas with its own independent government
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a city and the surrounding areas controlled by the king of that country.
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a tiny state
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Detailed explanation-1: -A city-state is an independent city which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries. Athens and Sparta were the most influential city states of Greece. Q. Name the city that has become the first Indian city to have its own logo after the state government launched it.
Detailed explanation-2: -A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nowadays, we have Singapore, Monaco, and the Vatican as the modern independent city-states; whereas cities such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Dubai are autonomous cities-independently functioning with their own governments but are still part of larger nations.
Detailed explanation-4: -City-states were autonomous, self-governing states led by a city. They controlled land outside the walls, from a few square miles, for many of the imperial free cities of Germany, to the huge land-and-sea empire of the Republic of Venice. All city-states had collective governments, usually a narrow or broad oligarchy.
Detailed explanation-5: -A city-state is a sovereign state centered on one many city which rules the surrounding countryside. Athens and Sparta are examples of ancient city-states.