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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > medieval political thought > city-state
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city-state  

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  • The compound word city-state was coined in nineteenth-century political science to describe a type of state concurrently in terms of its characteristics as a settlement and as a social and political organization. As a settlement, the city-state consists of a comparatively large and densely populated urban nucleus with a sufficient degree of internal complexity to foster division of labor, specialized skills and crafts, trade, and market exchange and thus to act as a social, economic, and religious center of an agricultural hinterland. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; City-State]

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