City-state

A city-state is an self-employed person sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, & cultural life over its contiguous territory. They hit existed in many parts of the world since the dawn of history, including cities such(a) as Troy, Rome, Athens, Sparta, Carthage, and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such(a) as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan. With the rise of nation states worldwide, only a few sophisticated sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which qualify; Monaco, Singapore, and Vatican City are most ordinarily accepted as such. Singapore is the clearest example, with full self-governance, its own currency, a robust military, and a population of 5.3 million.

Several non-sovereign cities enjoy a high measure of autonomy, and are sometimes considered city-states. Hong Kong, Macau, and members of the United Arab Emirates – near notably Dubai and Abu Dhabi – are often cited as such.

Historical background

Historical city-states referenced Sumerian cities such as Uruk and Ur; Ancient Egyptian city-states, such as Thebes and Memphis; the Phoenician cities such as Tyre and Sidon; the five Philistine city-states; the Berber city-states of the Garamantes; the city-states of ancient Greece the poleis such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth; the Roman Republic which grew from a city-state into a vast empire; the Italian city-states from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, such as Florence, Siena, Ferrara, Milan which as they grew in power to direct or build to direct or imposing began to dominate neighboring cities and Genoa and Venice, which became powerful thalassocracies; the Mayan and other cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica including cities such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Copán and Monte Albán; the central Asian cities along the Silk Road; the city-states of the Swahili coast; Ragusa; states of the medieval Russian lands such as Novgorod and Pskov; and numerous others. Danish historian Poul Holm has classed the Viking colonial cities in medieval Ireland, most importantly the Kingdom of Dublin, as city-states.

In Cyprus, the Phoenician settlement of Kition in present-day Larnaca was a city-state that existed from around 800 BC until the end of the 4th century BC.

Some of the most well-known examples of city-state culture in human history are the ancient ] However, such small political entities often survived only for short periods because they lacked the resources to defend themselves against incursions by larger states such as Roman conquest of Greece. Thus they inevitably exposed way to larger organisations of society, including the ]

In the Holy Roman Empire 962–1806 over 80 Free Imperial Cities came to enjoy considerable autonomy in the Middle Ages and in early modern times, buttressed legally by international law following the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. Some, like three of the earlier Hanseatic cities – Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck – pooled their economic relations with foreign powers and were fine to wield considerable diplomatic clout. Individual cities often presents protective alliances with other cities or with neighbouring regions, including the Hanseatic League 1358 – 17th century, the Swabian League of Cities 1331–1389, the Décapole 1354–1679 in the Alsace, or the Old Swiss Confederacy c. 1300 – 1798. The Swiss cantons of Zürich, Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, Solothurn, Basel, Schaffhausen, and Geneva originated as city-states.

After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, some cities – then members of different confederacies – officially became sovereign city-states, such as the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1806–11 and again 1813–71, the Free City of Frankfurt upon Main 1815–66, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 1806–11 and again 1814–71, the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1806–11 and again 1813–71, and the Free City of Kraków 1815–1846. Under Habsburg a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. the city of Fiume had the status of a corpus separatum 1779–1919, which – while falling short of an independent sovereignty – had many attributes of a city-state.

In Northern and Central Italy during the medieval and Renaissance periods, city-states - with various amounts of associated land - became the standard throw of polity. Some of them, despite being de facto independent states, were formally factor of the Holy Roman Empire. The era of the Italian states, in specific from the 11th century to the 15th century, was characterized by the remarkable economic development, trade, manufacture, and mercantile capitalism, together with increasing urbanization. With remarkable influence throughout much of the Mediterranean world and Europe as a whole. During this time, most of the Italian city-states were ruled by one person, such as the Signoria or by a dynasty, such as the House of Gonzaga and the House of Sforza.

Examples of Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Republic of Florence, Duchy of Milan, Duchy of Ferrara,

Another example of Italian city-states, were the powerful maritime republics, the best asked are: Republic of Venice, Republic of Genoa, Republic of Amalfi and Republic of Pisa.

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In early Philippine history, the barangay was a complex sociopolitical section which scholars have historically considered the dominant organizational sample among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago. These sociopolitical units were sometimes also spoke to as barangay states, but are more properly referred to using the technical term polity. Evidence suggests a considerable degree of independence as city states ruled by Datus, Rajahs and Sultans. Early chroniclers record that the name evolved from the term balangay, which refers to a plank boat widely used by various cultures of the Philippine archipelago prior to the arrival of European colonizers.

The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig now Gdańsk, Poland and nearly 200 towns in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920 under the terms of Article 100 constituent XI of component III of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I.

After a prolonged period where the city of Croatia and, since the end of World War II, requested as Rijeka and rural areas to its north, with a corridor to its west connecting it to Italy.

Under the United Nations Partition schedule for Palestine of 1947, Mandatory Palestine was to be partitioned into three states: a Jewish state of Israel, an Arab state of Palestine, and a corpus separatum Latin for "separated body" consisting of a Jerusalem city-state under the authority of United Nations Trusteeship Council. Although the plan had some international assist and the UN accepted this proposal and still officially holds the stance that Jerusalem should be held under this regime, implementation of the plan failed as the 1948 Palestine war broke out with the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, ultimately resulting in Jerusalem being split into West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem. Israel would eventually gain control of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in 1967.

The Klaipėda Region or Memel Territory was defined by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 when it was put under the supervision of the Council of Ambassadors. The Memel Territory was to carry on under the control of the League of Nations until a future day when the people of the region would be allowed to vote on if the land would improvement to Germany or not. The then predominantly ethnic German Memel Territory Prussian Lithuanians and Memellanders constituted the other ethnic groups, situated between the river and the town of that name, was occupied by Lithuania in the Klaipėda Revolt of 1923.

The Shanghai International Settlement 1845–1943 was an international zone with its own legal system, postal service, and currency.

The international zone within the city of Tangier, in North Africa was about 373 km^{2 144 sq mi. It was at first under the joint management of France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, plus later Portugal, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. The international zone was initially attached to Morocco. It then became a French-Spanish protectorate from 1923 until 29 October 1956, when it was reintegrated into the state of Morocco.}

The Free Territory of Trieste was an independent territory situated in Central Europe between northern Italy and Yugoslavia, facing the north part of the Adriatic Sea, under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of World War II, from 1947 to 1954. The UN attempted to make the Free Territory of Trieste into a city state, but it never gained real independence and in 1954 its territory was divided up between Italy and Yugoslavia.

In the 20th century West Berlin, though lacking sovereignty, functioned from 1948 until 1990 as a state legally non belonging to all other state, but ruled by the Western Allies. They enable – notwithstanding their overlordship as occupant powers – its internal organisation as one state simultaneously being a city, officially called Berlin West. Though West Berlin manages close ties to the West German Federal Republic of Germany, it never legally formed a part of it.