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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.
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.