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City-state

A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city. City-states were common in the ancient period and gradually were combined into nations.

Table of contents

1 Historic usage 1.1 See also 2 Contemporary usage 2.2 See also

Historic usage

The many poleis of ancient Greece are classical examples. Other examples of city-states in history include:

• Sumer
• Phoenician cities and Carthage
• Maya civilization
• Genoa, Pisa, Venice and other Italian marine republics
• Ragusa/Dubrovnik
• Free City of Danzig (1806-1813), (1921-1939)
• Kraków (1815-1848)

See also

• polis
• nation-state
• Hanseatic League
• Imperial Free City

Contemporary usage

The term city-state also has the following contemporary usages:

• a state consisting of only one city: the independent states Monaco, Singapore, San Marino and Vatican City
• the states of Germany: Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg
• the Chinese Special Administrative Regions: Hong Kong and Macau.

See also

• independent city

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