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Example sentences for: city-state
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For three decades, Kraków existed as an independent city-state, though it was again incorporated into the Austrian partition in 1846.
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.
Athens, the largest city-state, gradually embraced all of the Attica peninsula.
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).
At that time, civil war threatened to break out between the city-state’s “haves” and “have nots” (an expression from ancient Greece).