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“city”
city-state
An independent and sovereign city and its surrounding tributary territories. It is most typically used in referring to specific political entities of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia.
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Archeology, Archaeology
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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.
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Herodotus, The Fifth-Century B.C. Greek Traveler and Historian
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Protest transforms long quiescent Syrian city
transforms:
quiescent:
dissent:
defiance:
knitted into the city's fabric:
ferocious:
repression:
resilient opposition:
foreseeable future:
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."
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Words Used in Headlines and Subheadlines as Seen in a Variety of Publications
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