Ancient Greek city states
The political and social organization in ancient Greece consisted of individual city-states (called polis), to which associated colonies were added later. The Greek city states were independent of each other, had their own laws and institutions, but shared some basic features and culture. There were more than a thousand of ancient city states, the most important of which were Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Syracuse and Rhodes.
Abdera
Achaean Association
Aitolian Association
Apollonia
Arcadia
Argos
Athens
Boeotian Association
Byzantion
Corinth
Corinthian Association
Delos
Delphi
Elis
Ephesus
Epidaurus
Chalcedon
Kroton
Lamia
Megara
Megara Hyblaia
Miletus
Mycenae
Nesebar
Nessebar, Nesebur
Olympia
Olynthos
Orchomenos
Paestum
Patras
Priene
Sikyon
Sparta
Sybaris
Thebes
Trikala
The term "polis"
The term "polis" refers to an ancient Greek city-state, but it also means a city or a municipality. In fact, it is the precursor of the modern city, or state.
Derivatives of this word are still used today: metropolis, megapolis, necropolis, technopolis, etc. Even various world cities refer to the word polis in their names: Tripoli, Annapolis, Minneapolis, Naples, Sevastopol, Tiraspol, etc.