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'''A city-state''' is a region controlled exclusively by a [[city]]. City-states were common in the [[ancient history|ancient period]] and gradually were combined into [[nation]]s.

The many [[History of Ancient Greece|poleis of ancient Greece]] are classical examples. Other examples of city-states in history include:

* [[Sumer]]
* [[Phoenicia]]n cities and [[Carthage]]
* [[Maya civilization]]
* [[Venice]] and other Italian ''marine republics''
* [[Ragusa]]/[[Dubrovnik]]
* [[Szczecin]] - 12th century
* [[Wolin]] - 12th century
* [[Gdansk|Danzig]] (1806-1813), (1921-1939)

See also: [[polis]], [[nation-state]], [[Hanseatic League]]

The term '''city-state''' also has the following contemporary usages:
* a city that is a state by itself: the independent states [[Monaco]], [[Singapore]], [[San Marino]] and [[Vatican City]]
* the [[States of Germany|states]] of [[Germany]]: [[Berlin]], [[Bremen]] and [[Hamburg]]
* the [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] [[Special Administrative Region]]s: [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]].

See also: [[independent city]]

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* Adapted from the [[Wikipedia]] article, "City-state" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-state], used under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]