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A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city. City-states were common in the ancient period and gradually were combined into nations.
Contemporary usage
Today the term can refer to the independent states of Monaco, Singapore and the Vatican City, as well as subnational units such as the German states of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg. In China, the term is sometimes used for the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
See also: independent city
Historic usage
The many poleis of ancient Greece are classical examples. Other examples of city-states in history include:
- Sumer
- Phoenician cities and Carthage
- Jericho in Canaan
- Ancient Rome
- Maya civilization
- Lübeck, Hamburg and many cities of the Hanseatic League.
- Venice, Genoa, Pisa, Amalfi: the Italian marine republics
- Ragusa/Dubrovnik
- the Imperial Cities and the Free Cities of the Holy Roman Empire
- Free City of Danzig (1806-1813), (1921-1939)
- Kraków (1815-1848)
See also: polis, nation-state
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