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19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...
Ancient Greeks by city-state (62 C) A. Achaean city-states (16 P) Aetolian city-states (1 P) Arcadian city-states (36 P) ... Pages in category "Greek city-states"
Lord Guan is the patron of military personnel and police, while Mazu is the patron of fishermen and sailors. Tudigong (Earth Deity) is the tutelary deity of a locality, and each individual locality has its own Earth Deity. Chenghuangshen (City God) is the guardian deity of individual city, worshipped by local officials and locals since imperial ...
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
Coulanges work was followed by the innovation of the English city-state by W. Warde Fowler in 1893. [17] The Germans had already invented the word in their own language: Stadtstaat, "city-state", referring to the many one-castle principates that abounded at the time. The name was applied to the polis by Herder in 1765. Fowler anglicised it: "It ...
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]
The study of the symmachikos phoros provides the following insights: The amount of tax paid by each state is written in Attic numerals. One-sixtieth is dedicated to Athena, the patron goddess of the city. [1] The membership is not limited to Ionians or Greek city-states (see Ialysus, Mysians, Eteocarpathians and the Carians whom Tymnes rules).
Ancient Cretans by city-state (4 C) A. Abderites (7 P) Ancient Acragantines (12 P) Ancient Aeginetans (1 C, 11 P) Ancient Amphipolitans (2 C, 8 P) People from ...