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Meaning of "poleis"

Poleis is the plural form of polis, referring to city-states in ancient Greece
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Many of these poleis were oligarchies.
Poleis that broke this oath would themselves be threatened with destruction.
Prior to that both poleis had enjoyed a golden age.
The other was that each of these draft treaties were sent to all poleis.
Member poleis would periodically meet in common synods to decide policy.
Only the largest and wealthiest poleis paid anywhere near these sums.
The term was also used for the political merger of two or more neighboring poleis.
Poleis in the Pont and Propontis.
It was followed by other coins issued by other Greek poleis in Dobruja.
One of these was that all Greek poleis ( with a few exceptions ) were to be autonomous.
Sympoliteia goes further, merging the governments of two or more poleis.
Some of the most important poleis in Italy were,.
These aristocrats, who were large landowners, also dominated the political life of their poleis.
The Athenians subsequently merged the remaining poleis into the Ionia District.
The first was in permanent settlements founded by Greeks, which formed as independent poleis.

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Ptolemy named nine principal poleis or towns belonging to the Brigantes, these were,.
Ancient Greece consisted of several hundred relatively independent city-states poleis.
The last institution commemorating the old Greek poleis was the Panhellenion, established by Hadrian.
Ancient Greece, in its early period, was a loose collection of independent city states called poleis.
These poleis also pledged to follow the hegemon, “ whithersoever that polis might lead . ”.
Furthermore, all three royal houses were " honored " by the Greek poleis.
Previously, all poleis had their own calendars based on their respective festivals . [ 7 ].
By this time, however, the individualistic Greek poleis had fallen apart.
System and the birth of the slave-owning city-states, the so-called poleis.

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