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A polis is a city, but it's more than just the place. It's also the people of the city and the political unit represented by those people and the government that rules it. In some uses it includes more than just the urban area of the city as we would think of it, but also the land around it which falls politically within the control of the government and which is farmed to feed the people living in the urban area; in many cases, the people who live on the land outside the city but still within the polis land consider themselves, and are considered by the people of the city, to be citizens of that city though they live outside it. in modern literature, polis is often translated as city-state, which is about as close as we can get to the meaning without writing an entire paragraph like this one.

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