city-state

NOUN
  1. a state consisting of a sovereign city
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How To Use city-state In A Sentence

  • There was no reason that Athens at 338 B.C. needed to lose to Philip of Macedon at the battle of Chaironeia, or even that the loss there meant the end of the freedom of the Greek city-states.
  • Singapore's air quality has reached "unhealthy" levels Thursday, as the city-state continued to be enveloped in haze from fires in neighboring Indonesia's Sumatra island. Haze Blankets Singapore
  • Haval were as most Shemite city-states, a walled city. Archive 2009-12-01
  • The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.
  • And so Cesare's campaign continued... His first objective was the small city-state Camerino. THE FAMILY
  • He said the U.S. is considering a range of actions to strengthen military ties to Australia and the city-state of Singapore. Gates pledges wider U.S. military presence in Asia
  • Or, as John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation predicted last year: "We're going back to the city-state.
  • This mediaeval movement of expansion, which is commonly called the Crusades, but which made itself felt in Spain and Sicily and the Aegean as well as in the 'Holy Land', is a remarkable parallel to the propagation of Ancient Greek city-states round the same shores between about 750 and 600 B. C. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
  • A CIVILIZATION B SCIENCE/TECH C GOVERNMENT D RELIGION E SOCIOECONOMICS A Akkad B metallurgy walled cities irrigation C strong centraL authority controlled several city-states and kept peace (for a while) quelled dissent with violence D polytheistic tradition centered on city gods, fertility goddess and harvest deities hepatoscopy (examining sheep livers for omens) When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings
  • Most gate guards in Shemite cities were usually not quite prepared for trouble as ruffians of all kinds routinely traveled between the various city-states. Conan Fan Fiction!
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