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city-state (s) (noun), city-states (pl)
An independent and sovereign city and its surrounding tributary territories: City-states are most typically used in referring to specific political entities of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia.
This entry is located in the following unit: Archeology, Archaeology (page 2)
Mother-City
The city that is responsible for sending out a colony.

It usually provided the equipment and the founder, or chief official, for the colony.

This entry is located in the following unit: Herodotus, The Fifth-Century B.C. Greek Traveler and Historian (page 1)
Protest transforms long quiescent Syrian city
transforms:
quiescent:
dissent:
defiance:
knitted into the city's fabric:
ferocious:
repression:
resilient opposition:
foreseeable future:

"Dissent and defiance in Homa, its residents say, have become knitted into the city's fabric, signaling to the government that however ferocious the repression, it will face a resilient opposition for the foreseeable future."

—International Herald Tribune, August 18, 2011; pages 1-5.
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