city-state
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Officials for the city-state said an initial data leak occurred between 7 and 12 August.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The head of the CDU in the northern city-state of Bremen, Heiko Strohmann, told Merz in a recent party meeting that he "was running a political party, not a business".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
This includes Chevron Singapore’s 50% interest in the Singapore Refining Co., which operates a refinery on Jurong Island in the city-state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Alternate proposals would make Donnyland into an economic development zone — a city-state like Monaco on the French Mediterranean that could be semiautonomous.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026
But the city-state does not unambiguously enter the historical record until about 500 a.d., when it had a king named Yuknoom Ch'een.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The region's city-states -- Ur, Uruk, and Lagash among them -- developed complex political and religious systems that became the blueprint for later societies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
The ancient Greek mindset, curious and adaptive, owes much to living amid hundreds of neighboring city-states with distinct cultures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025
“Antigone” was performed during an uneasy respite from war with other Greek city-states.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024
Prior to that final battle, Japan had been a confederation of warring city-states and provinces, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
The Mayans of the tenth century CE built city-states as far south as Belize and Honduras.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Ancient Greece - Introductory
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