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n. (plural of independent city English)
Usage examples of "independent cities".
It was not that northern Greece was truly small, but with Illyria, Macedonia, Paionia and Thrace all boasting armies, and countless independent cities like Olynthus and Amphipolis employing large mercenary forces, no one King could take control of the area.
The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were a period of growing, independent or quasi-independent cities.
In Macedonia alone, when Philip came to power, there were more than twenty supposedly independent cities who offered no allegiance to the throne.
The independent cities of Philistia would contribute to a levee for mutual advantage, and a joint expedition would be mounted.
Voltaire notes upon this remark that Montesquieu has taken each of the independent cities as a republic.
Both the dependent and independent cities draw great revenue from the Well and the traffic they bring.
The reason for this marriage, Nlavi knew, was that Motraia had overrun half the independent cities of the River Ukand the king hoped thus to ward off a similar fate for Purasham.
Dippars are minted only in independent cities, as opposed to titrium and gold half-wells and wells, minted by the Well system.
Through them were scattered various small independent cities and principalities.