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For almost 50 years after Platae, peace reigned at home, and the victorious city-state entered its most brilliant era.
For three decades, Kraków existed as an independent city-state, though it was again incorporated into the Austrian partition in 1846.
In the year ending in April, China ran a trade surplus of almost $24 billion--but Hong Kong, as one would expect for a mainly service-producing city-state, ran an offsetting deficit of $19 billion, reducing the total to a fairly unimpressive $4.
Continue along Adrianou to find the remains of the Ancient Greek Agora — birthplace of western democracy and the social heart of the ancient city-state of Athens (agora comes from the Greek agiero, meaning to assemble).
However, Greece was not yet a country; each city-state was self-governing and autonomous.