It means that Athens had the poleisgovernment system. It is a city but it has the power of a state within the "country" of Greece. City state is literally the textbook definition of polis.
Athens, Greece, Europe
No, Ancient Greece was not a city state. city sates were part of Greece
No, Greece is neither a city or a state.
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Ancient Greece was not a country. The Greek world was comprised of a couple of thousand independent city-states of various sizes, with a similar cultural heritage, spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
what was and still is the most popular city-state of Greece
They began to build more city-states instead of a country
The opposite of a city-state is a small town, i.e. part of a larger state or country. A city-state was a relatively small autonomous governmental unit in ancient Greece.
A city-state is like a small country with just one city. The Greeks called the city-states a Polis.
A polis. A polis is a city state and the basic unit in Greece.
Greece was not a single country. The Greek world comprised about 2,000 independent city-states, spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.