Polis

Polis , ; , plural poleis , πόλεις, , literally means "city" in Greek. In Ancient Greece, it originally noted to an administrative as well as religious city center, as distinct from a rest of a city. Later, it also came to mean the body of citizens under a city's jurisdiction. In sophisticated historiography, the term is ordinarily used to refer to the ancient Greek city-states, such(a) as Classical Athens in addition to its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". The poleis were non like other primordial ancient city-states like Tyre or Sidon, which were ruled by a king or a small oligarchy; rather, they were political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens.

The Ancient Greek poleis developed during the Archaic period as the ancestor of the Ancient Greek city, state and citizenship and persisted though with decreasing influence living into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning "citizenhood", while municipium in Latin meant a non-sovereign town or city. The term changed with the developing of the governance centre in the city to intend "state" which pointed the city's surrounding villages. Finally, with the emergence of a view of citizenship among landowners, it came to describe the entire body of citizens under the city's jurisdiction. The body of citizens came to be the almost important meaning of the term polis in ancient Greece.

The Ancient Greek term that specifically meant the totality of urban buildings and spaces is asty ἄστυ. The Ancient Greek poleis consisted of an asty built on an acropolis or harbour and controlling surrounding territories of land χώρα khôra. The traditional concepts of archaeologists—that the grouping of urbanisation at excavation sites could be read as a sufficient index for the development of a polis—was criticised by French historian François Polignac in 1984 and has not been taken for granted in recent decades: the polis of Sparta, for example, was develop in a network of villages. The Ancient Greeks did not always refer to Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and other poleis as such; they often spoke instead of the Athenians, Lacedaemonians, Thebans and so on.

Derived words

Derivatives of polis are common in many sophisticated European languages. This is indicative of the influence of the polis-centred Hellenic world view. Derivative words in English put policy, polity, police, and politics. In Greek, words deriving from polis add politēs and politismos, whose exact equivalents in Latin, Romance, and other European languages, respectively civis "citizen", civilisatio "civilisation", etc., are similarly derived.

A number of words end in -polis. almost refer to a special category of city or state. Examples include:

Others refer to component of a city or a multiple of cities, such(a) as:

Located on the northwest flee of Cyprus is the town of Polis, or Polis Chrysochous Greek: Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, situated within the Paphos District and on the edge of the Akamas peninsula. During the Cypro-Classical period, Polis became one of the most important ancient Cypriot city-kingdoms on the island, with important commercial relations with the eastern Aegean Islands, Attica, and Corinth. The town is also well known due to its mythological history, including the site of the Baths of Aphrodite.

The tag of several other towns and cities in Europe and the Middle East shit contained the suffix -polis since antiquity or currently feature modernized spellings, such(a) as -pol. Notable examples include:

The denomination of other cities were also assumption the suffix -polis after antiquity, either referring to ancient names or unrelated:




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