asty
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thumb|The division of Attica into urban (pink), inland (green), and coastal (blue) zones by Cleisthenes
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thumb|The division of Attica into urban (pink), inland (green), and coastal (blue) zones by Cleisthenes
Asty (; ) was the physical space of a city or town in Ancient Greece, especially as opposed to the political concept of a polis, which encompassed the entire territory and citizen body of a city-state.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “asty” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.