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A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. [1] They have existed in many parts of the world throughout history, including cities such as Rome, Carthage, Athens and Sparta and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan.
state Land Germany (official term) state lieu-dit France: place name linn Estonia: town or city lugar Cape Verde: division of zona in Cape Verde Portugal: hamlet lungsod Philippines: city maakond Estonia: county մարզ Armenia: province or region mahoz Israel: district mancomunidad Spain: association of municipalities, commonwealth merindad
A worksheet, in the word's original meaning, is a sheet of paper on which one performs work. They come in many forms, most commonly associated with children's school work assignments, tax forms, and accounting or other business environments. Software is increasingly taking over the paper-based worksheet.
In the systems of local government in some U.S. states, a general-law municipality, [1] general-law city, [1] code city, [2] or statutory city [3] [4] is a municipality whose government structure and powers are defined by the general law of its state.
Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras; City-state, an independent sovereign city; Free imperial city, self-governed city in the Holy Roman Empire subordinate only to the emperor Free City of Augsburg, for over 500 years in what is now Germany; Free City of Besançon, in what is now eastern France
The agreement (concilium) has a life of its own, creating a res publica or "public entity" (synonymous with civitas), into which individuals are born or accepted, and from which they die or are ejected. The civitas is not just the collective body of all the citizens, it is the contract binding them all together, because each of them is a civis. [1]
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