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Example sentences for: city-state

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Athens, the largest city-state, gradually embraced all of the Attica peninsula.
No important decisions of state could be made without consulting the Oracle here, and when the Colossus of Rhodes was toppled in an earthquake the people of that city-state in the Aegean left it where it lay after advice from the Oracle not to rebuild it.
At that time, civil war threatened to break out between the city-state’s “haves” and “have nots” (an expression from ancient Greece).
The Thirteen Years’ War yielded great benefits for Poland: the transformation of Danzig (formerly Gdansk) into an independent city-state under the protection of the Polish crown and the capture of other Knights territories.
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.