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Example sentences for: city-state

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At that time, civil war threatened to break out between the city-state’s “haves” and “have nots” (an expression from ancient Greece).
This was not the port that served the city-state of Athens because it could not be seen from the city and was therefore vulnerable to attack.
This museum celebrates the art dating from before the development of Athens city-state — discovered in the Cyclades islands of the Aegean (c2000–3000 b.c.) A wonderful collection of naïve figurines carved in marble was discovered in graves on the islands.
For three decades, Kraków existed as an independent city-state, though it was again incorporated into the Austrian partition in 1846.
Athens, the largest city-state, gradually embraced all of the Attica peninsula.