City-state

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.

The many poleis of ancient Greece are classical examples. Other examples of city-states in history include:

Sumer
Phoenician cities and Carthage
Maya civilization
Venice and other Italian marine republics
Ragusa/Dubrovnik
Szczecin - 12th century
Wolin - 12th century
Danzig (1806-1813), (1921-1939)

See also: polis, nation-state, Hanseatic League

The term city-state also has the following contemporary usages:

a city that is a state by itself: the independent states Monaco, Singapore, San Marino and Vatican City
the states of Germany: Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg
the Chinese Special Administrative Regions: Hong Kong and Macau.

See also: independent city

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