Example sentences for: city-states

How can you use “city-states” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Several islands and Greek city-states agreed to work together, and created a treasury to fund their plans, which was held on the island of Delos.

  • The advent of the Bronze Age (about 3200 b.c. ), and the spread of city-states ruled by kings, is marked by the appearance of royal tombs containing bronze objects in such places as Troy in the west, and Alacahöyük near Ankara.

  • While mainland Greece was reaching its zenith during the Classical Age (480–338 b.c.), the island remained a backwater of warring city-states, of which Górtis was the most powerful.

  • For the next three centuries Nepal had three city-states side by side in the valley — Kantipur (now known as Kathmandu), Lalitpur (now known as Patan), and Bhaktapur (also sometimes called Bhadgaon), along with their hinterlands.

  • Each region sustains a solid and pugnacious local pride from historic division into the city-states, duchies, kingdoms, and republics of Florence, Naples, Venice, Lombardy, Piedmont, and Sicily.


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