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denoted, particularly in the Seleucid kingdom and Ptolemaic Egypt, enclaves of minority populations of
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were usually found in ports and could be considered to be the reverse of a
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being retained by the settlers, and it may have functioned like a
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Hansen, Mogens Herman; Raaflaub, Kurt A. (1995-01-01).
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or in an open position. They were an equivalent of the
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Index

archetypical
settlement
ancient Greece
self-governing
city state
polis
Greek
πόλις
Greek
κώμη
village
political unit
Thucydides
Sparta
neighbourhood
polis
rural settlement
developed from
Greek
κατοικία
municipal institutions
word derives from
Ancient Greek
κατοικέω
Latin
civitas
the Classical era
conquests of Alexander the Great
newly conquered east
fortresses

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