Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

Many of the oldest inhabited cities in Greece are still standing against all odds. They have survived to this day to tell the ...

A final reason behind the development of city-states was the Greek aristocracy, who acted to prevent any permanent monarchies from forming. They defended the political independence of their cities ...

The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.

Each city-state ruled itself. They had their own governments, laws and army. Someone living in Sparta would call themselves Spartan first, and Greek second. Famously, the city-states didn’t get ...

Our civilisation has grown from small, rival communities, often cut off from each other by mountains, rivers and the sea, to create the city-states - each like a mini country, with its own capital ...

and the city's claim to fame was that it was actually the first capital of the modern Greek state, from 1823 to 1834, before Athens took over. Its name comes from the Venetian Napoli di Romania ...

Tens of thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets in 110 cities, including 13 locations abroad, to demand justice for the victims of the country’s deadliest rail disaster in 2023 ...