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Example sentences for: city-state

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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.
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).
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.
Difficult not to make money when you're the only game in town in a Third World city-state.