City-states

{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; width: 250px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |- | colspan="2" style="margin-left: inherit; background:#DEB887; text-align:center; font-size: medium;" |AncientOpone |- align="center" | colspan="2" | 250px|. |- style="vertical-align: top;" | Location |Hafun, Somalia |- style="vertical-align: top;" | City-state existed: | 1st millennium BC–500 AD |- style="vertical-align: top;" |} Opone () was an ancient seaport and emporium located in present-day Somalia. It is primarily know

thumb|Map of Mesopotamia in 1770 BCEKurda was a small ancient city-state and a Middle Bronze petty kingdom located in the region of the Sinjar Plain in Northern Mesopotamia which eventually became subsumed into Assyria. It is mentioned along with the Amorite states of Andarig and Apum.

Beikthano (, , also known as Panhtwa city), is situated in the irrigated Magway Region, near present-day Taungdwingyi. In the era of the Pyu city-states it was a city of considerable significance, possibly a local capital replacing Sri Ksetra. Today the modest village is noted for its hot springs and archaeological sites. Beikthano, Hanlin, and Sri Ksetra, the ancient cities of the Pyu Kingdom were built on the irrigated fields of the dry zone of the Ayeyawady River basin. They were inscribed by UNESCO on its List of World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia in May 2014 for their archaeological h

{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; width: 250px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" | colspan="2" style="margin-left: inherit; background:#DEB887; text-align:center; font-size: medium;" |AncientMalao |- | colspan="2" | 270px|. |- | Location |Berbera, Somaliland |- style="vertical-align: top;" | City-state existed: | 1st century AD |- |- | colspan="2" | |- |}

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aspect of history

18c. Swedish autonomous island territory

International settlement in China

{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; width: 250px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |- | colspan="2" style="margin-left: inherit; background:#DEB887; text-align:center; font-size: medium;" |AncientSarapion |- align="center" | colspan="2" | 250px|. |- style="vertical-align: top;" | Location | Mogadishu, Somalia |- style="vertical-align: top;" | City-state existed: | 1st century AD |- style="vertical-align: top;" |- align="center" | colspan="2" | |- style="vertical-align: top;" |} Sarapion (, also spelled Serapi

Nashshan (Minaean: romanized: , ; modern day Kharbat Al-Sawda', ) is the name of an ancient South Arabian city in the northern al-Jawf region of present day Yemen, originally independent but later subsumed into the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Ma'in between the 6th and 4th centuries BC. Like many other city-states of the Jawf, Nashshan functioned as the name of both the city and the tribe.