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A polis was an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its citizens' entire native land, complete with its own constitution and demanding their supreme loyalty—quite different from a modern city, which exists within a larger country. This distinction matters because it shows that ancient Greece was actually a collection of independent city-states rather than a unified nation, fundamentally shaping how Greek society, politics, and identity worked.
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- Settlement.image_caption
- Acropolis of Athens, a noted polis of Classical Greece. The polis was the whole city, which had its own walls. Shown is a part of the polis, the akropolis, "city heights", which was never alone regarded as its own city. The origins of the settlement are lost in prehistoric times. Also included in the classical Athenian polis were suburban locations in the region of Attica, such as the port, Piraeus.
- Settlement.etymology
- "walls"
- Settlement.government_type
- Republic, or commonwealth. The ultimate authority was considered to reside in the citizenry, the demos, despite the broad variation in the form of the administration.
- Settlement.governing_body
- The assembly, or ekklesia, although in the more autocratic forms of administration, it met rarely. Magistrates performed the day-to-day governing, called archons.
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_blank1_title
- max area of 60% of poleis
- Settlement.area_blank1_km2
- 100
- Settlement.area_blank2_title
- max area of 80% of poleis
- Settlement.area_blank2_km2
- 200
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 400 BC
- Settlement.population_total
- 7500000+
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Dēmos in the Attic-Ionic dialects or dãmos in the Doric. The demonym was formed by producing the name of a people from the name of the polis. For example, the polis of Athens was named Athenai after the goddess Athena; hence the demos was the Athenaioi, "the Athenians".
- Settlement.name
- Polis
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- gr
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Constitutional microstate
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Attica 06-13 Athens 50 View from Philopappos - Acropolis Hill.jpg
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- partially coincident with
- city-state
- culture
- Ancient Greece
- different from
- emporium
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Con il termine polis (in greco antico: πόλις, «città»; plurale πόλεις, póleis) si indica la città-Stato dell'antica Grecia, ma anche il modello politico tipico in quel periodo in Grecia.
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