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"racial" name to its population and poleis. Acarnania, for example, was the location of the Acarnanian people and poleis. A colony from there would then be

Pula, also known by its Italian name as Pola, is the largest city in Istria County, west Croatia, and the seventh-largest city in the country, situated

poleis might be dominated by larger neighbors, but conquest or direct rule by another city-state appears to have been quite rare. Instead the poleis grouped

si-NOY-kiz-əm), was originally the amalgamation of villages in Ancient Greece into poleis, or city-states. Etymologically, the word means "dwelling together (syn)

of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman,ISBN 0-19-814099-1,2004,page 339 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman,ISBN 0-19-814099-1

Hellenic poleis, taking up the concept of "city-states" administered by the aristocracy. The cities of Magna Graecia were independent like the Greek poleis of

step between the independent poleis and the Macedonian, Roman, or Persian provincial administrations that brought the poleis to an end and replaced the

Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, p. 1243. Hansen & Nielsen (eds.), Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, pp. 259, 260. Hansen & Nielsen (eds

problems involved in the identification of patron deities, and of the poleis as poleis, can be complex. Versnel finds that the "image of gods as city patrons

assembly (ekklesia) in a democratic Greek city-state (polis, plural poleis). In a few poleis, the ekklesiasterion was a separate building, but in many cases