He said it evoked Marco Polo and city states like Venice.
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Greece was full of separate rocky islands dotted with individual city-states.
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From there, we visited Bhaktapur, one of the ancient city-states of the Kathmandu Valley.
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Having collapsed into feuding city-states after the overthrow of the longtime Libyan dictator Col.
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Both city-states are traditionally considered rivals for the position of Asia's top financial hub.
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European interests could take primacy, the invaders set up set up four new city-states
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REMEMBER, IT'S ONLY ABOUT 215,003, 200,27 IN CITY STATES, SO THAT'S ABOVE-TREND JOB GROWTH.
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Early on, the first non-barbarians you are likely to encounter are AI-driven city-states.
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Enheduanna used her skill as a poet to help unite the contentious city-states of Sumer.
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And what we have here is corporations that are becoming our de facto governments. City-states.
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City-states are not more natural than empires, and nation-states are not more natural than tribes.
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I also suspect that we will see a growing number of new city-states as this century progresses.
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Martin cited Greek city states and French politicians squabbling while the threats of Philip of Macedon and Hitler, respectively, loomed.
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In the 22nd century, the Moon is covered by a series of city-states, including the matriarchal Society of Cousins.
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Meanwhile, some Olympic contestants competed for city-states other than their own as a result of bribery, or assumed bribery.
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Ancient Greek city-states can still be cited individually, but the continent of Africa has had some good ideas too.
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Mencius Moldbug, who talks about having a global patchwork of small city states, which would be essentially corporate shareholder dictatorships.
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A press release from the city states that the proposed move would affect 542 people who have convictions on their records.
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It follows a detective in two fictional European city-states — Besźel and Ul Qoma — that are mingled together physically and geographically.
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They are the heads of the football city-states that stir our civic passions and twist our moods from September to February.
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Its name refers to the confederation free-trading city states in the northern part of Europe that started in the 14th century.
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In the realm of real history, this holy speck of land was contested by rival islands, city-states, empires and trading interests.
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This mural is likely named after the Lelantine War, a war between Ancient Greek city-states over the kidnapping of a woman.
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Not unlike the city-states of 16th century Europe, the pizza men of New York City have been at war for decades.
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Bob Graham, the former governor and senator, once described Florida as a collection of city-states, each with its own distinctive character.
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At one level, it allows sovereignties to multiply, as city-states thrive—think of Singapore or Dubai, like Bukhara in Marco Polo's day.
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Prior to the nuclear era, states, city-states and empires were essentially safe from homeland destruction unless their armies had first been defeated.
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Amid a global war, the world has reordered itself into militaristic city-states like Neo Beijing, Neo Tokyo and the American Neo States.
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It's tempting to stomp city-states into the ground early on, but you might be better served using the honey and not the vinegar.
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You're glad it didn't, because the periods between glaciations are when you get things like agriculture, city-states, plumbing, sunbathing, and the Nintendo Switch.
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Human intervention is still necessary, perhaps more than ever, and in digital city-states like these moderators are the backbone of online law enforcement.
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The name reflected the perennial tension in Athens and other city-states between the rule of the many and the rule of the few.
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They have included the city states of ancient Greece and of Renaissance Italy, 85033th and 18th century Britain, and 19th century America, among others.
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Nor could she travel, even to the next-door emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of seven city-states making up the United Arab Emirates.
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Demagoguery appeared, according to Weber, first in the Mediterranean city-states and then spread to Western parliamentary systems through the role of party leaders.
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From 1970 to 2000, the American economy was the freest in the West, lagging behind only Asia's laissez-faire city-states, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Since then, Crown Prince Mohammed has advocated reforms on the model of the relatively cosmopolitan but still authoritarian Emirates city-states Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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Most of the luxury products prized by the nobility (carpets, silk, spices) originate in the more advanced city states in Essos, across the Narrow Sea.
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In the early 19th century, the Italian peninsula, dominated by rival kingdoms and city-states, was derided as a "geographical expression" rather than a country.
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But if you look way back into history, one of the most interesting times in European history was when Europe split into many city states.
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The left leads the way with California actually beginning to act like "the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta" as Gov.
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He drew inspiration from the advanced hydraulics and broad causeways of ancient Khmer city-states, and he borrowed many architectural motifs from temple walls and roofs.
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"The Baltimore City States Attorney's Office referred two officers to Internal Affairs as we had questions concerning their Body Worn Camera videos," Saunders said in a statement.
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Libya has been the scene of chaos and fighting between city states, rival tribes and Islamist militias since the 2011 revolution that saw the fall of Moammar Gadhafi.
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They knew how historical experiments in self-governance—the Greek democracies, the early Roman republic, the city-states of Renaissance Italy—had been weakened by unalloyed self-enrichment.
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It's their upcoming grand strategy game that will let players control just about any of the various republics, city-states, empires, and tribes in the wider Roman world.
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The story goes something like this: The Western self was born in Greece, a pointillist realm of around 22014,22008 city-states, where the land was poor for farming.
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Dubai, with its Bright Lights, Big City aura, and the six other city states that make up the United Arab Emirates, attract millions of job seekers each year.
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It's the first accident with the loss of an aircraft involving Emirates, the flag carrier of Dubai, one of the seven city-states making up the United Arab Emirates.
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Players can keep the global rogue AI counter low by dedicating resources to building AI safety labs in their cities, and paying for city states to build them, too.
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Based on the data, researchers believe that the region supported an advanced civilization on par with that of ancient Greece or China, rather than a series of isolated city-states.
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If we exclude the two city-states (Singapore and Hong Kong), U.S. infrastructure ranks No. 7 behind Germany, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, France, and Switzerland — all noted for their excellent infrastructure.
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During the late Bronze Age, a thriving group of city-states flourished in the Eastern Mediterranean, with complex social and legal structures, economic specialization, global trade and written diplomatic treaties.
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Since Gadhafi's overthrow and his summary execution at the side of a road in October 2011, the country has dissolved into city states, tribal and militia fiefdoms that ISIS is exploiting.
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While I built roads, raised armies and sought trade deals with nearby city-states and rivals, my neighbor Spain kept to itself, built churches and spread the good word of Protestantism.
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For example, he had recently provided $500,000 in seed money for the Seasteading Institute, a nonprofit organization that was researching how to build new, independent city-states floating in international waters.
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In the early nineteenth century, there were no more Egyptian dynasties, Greek city-states, or Roman emperors; but there were still Jews, practicing the same religion that their ancestors had, millennia earlier.
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Still, Gian Primo Giardi, the president of the San Marino Olympic Committee, makes clear there is a gulf between what he calls the city states and the "big" countries like Montenegro and Luxembourg.
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The Tuscan city of Siena itself appeals to Mr Matar for having favoured civic rule at a time when many other Italian city-states were controlled by the Catholic church or the aristocracy.
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They point out that there was plenty of proto-capitalism—in 13th-century Italian city-states, for instance—before the Reformation, and the development of its modern form was influenced by many other factors.
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The conflict was so costly in lives and treasure that it devastated winner and loser alike, precipitating massive social and political ruptures and leaving the Greek city-states divided and vulnerable to external conquest.
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Machiavelli noted that the failure of many city states in early modern Italy was due to their lack of strategic supplies in times of conflict, a lesson which Britain learned following two world wars.
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Only three levels of the planned eight were completed by the time a war broke out between city-states, which gave the foundation time to settle, possibly preventing a collapse while the building continued.
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Looking for any coherence in the Trump campaign is always a mistake, in large part because the campaign seems to be run as a confederation of loosely affiliated city states rather than something more coherent.
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After Colonel el-Qaddafi's fall, Libya collapsed into a patchwork of city-states, and multiple militias began competing for control of the country's two largest cities, Benghazi in the east and Tripoli in the west.
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In addition to being limited to countries that include urban areas with populations over 300,000, we also excluded city-states like Singapore and sub-regions of countries, like Hong Kong, China and Puerto Rico, United States.
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After another round of testing in Dubai, one of the seven city-states that make up the U.A.E. federation, the spacecraft will take another long plane trip, to Japan, for the rocket launch to leave Earth.
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The Italian city states and some north eastern Iberian cities had shipped the crusaders back and forth in the Mediterranean sea, building up huge fleets and setting up networks of trade all around the Mediterranean shores.
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Few in Hong Kong and Singapore would argue that their city-states should be self-sufficient, whereas most respondents in Indonesia, Thailand, India, the Philippines and Malaysia reckon that their countries shouldn't have to rely on imports.
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Along the way humankind has passed through various fairly distinct stages of social structure: multivillage agricultural polities known as chiefdoms, ancient city-states, ancient regional states, empires, modern nation-states, alliances of nation-states, and so on.
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It was one of the biggest and most important Mayan city states between the fifth and ninth centuries AD. Pakal's military campaigns during his long rule in the seventh century consolidated the city's domination of the region.
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On a global scale, this post-World War II American hegemony echoed the way that ancient Athens, after leading a victorious alliance of Greek city-states against a Persian invasion, gradually shaped the alliance into an empire.
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With Apollo's priestess as the main attraction, Delphi's renown grew as Greece's wealthy city states, and powerful conquerors, built sumptuous treasuries filled with rich offerings to encourage the sun god to favor them in war and politics.
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With Apollo's priestess as the main attraction, Delphi's renown grew as Greece's wealthy city states, and powerful conquerors, built sumptuous treasuries filled with rich offerings to encourage the sun god to favor them in war and politics.
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It sheds some light on an otherwise Dark Age: what exactly happened between the collapse of a great, palace-based civilisation around 1150BC and the emergence of city-states from 800BC onwards is one of Greek history's riddles.
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This year, in Civ 6, I'm learning new words again with the concept of suzerainty over city-states, but more importantly I'm reminded of a timeless life lesson that's more pressing today than ever: greed leads to unhappiness.
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The town has been part of the Holy Roman Empire and of a league of city states; in the Thirty Years War it was briefly conquered by the Swedes before the Treaty of Westphalia gave it to France.
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"The Republic of Iraq, standing on the land that was once home to the storied city-states and kingdoms of Mesopotamia, has a celebrated heritage as a cradle of civilization," Donoghue said in a statement ahead of the handoff.
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In that time, a handful of online communities went through unprecedented expansion, scaling the experimental, self-organizing colonies of the Web 1.0 era into sprawling, corporatized digital city-states like Facebook and Twitter that grew out of Web 2.0.
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After a few minutes of mounting tension, the tiny city-states winnow each other down and become large societies until, in the end, a few remain to fight for over the meager resources on the island they're trapped on.
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The government has dropped its plan, the original cause of the hubbub, to expand the city limits of Addis Ababa, the capital, into Oromia, the largest of the federal republic's subdivisions of nine regional states and two city-states.
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"You could end up with these walled city-states and then everyone else is just left to fend for themselves," said Liz Koslov, an assistant professor at the UCLA Department of Urban Planning and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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A summary of his paper begins in arresting fashion: The combined savings of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the two city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore is about 40 percent of their collective GDP, a thirty-five-year high.
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It even ran its own D.M.V. All of this, including Smith's claim, would have surprised the ancient Phoenicians, a disparate set of neighbouring and often warring city-states, cut off from each other for the most part by deep river valleys.
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Greater Los Angeles accounts for more than 10 percent of G.D.P. These city-states matter far more than most American states — and connectivity to these urban clusters determines Americans' long-term economic viability far more than which state they reside in.
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Some weeks were as snappy as days, others were as elastic as months, and the months felt as if they were either bleeding into one another three at a time—Jabruarch—or segmenting into Gregorian-calendar city-states. Feb. Rue. Airy.
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The 1994 Constitution, introduced by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front governing coalition, recast the country from a centrally unified republic to a federation of nine regional ethnic states and two federally administered city-states.
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About 2,300 years ago, the uppity Greek-speaking kingdom of Macedonia subjugated the fractious southern city-states that now comprise Greece and then organized an all-Greek military expedition under King Alexander the Great that established an empire reaching as far as India.
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Europe in the 19th century, after all, was in many ways embracing increasing secularism, threatening the Papal States' political power in the face of Italian nationalists, who wanted to unify the fragmented city-states of the Italian Peninsula into a single country.
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Modern scholars have described Thucydides' account of the decades-long Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta toward the end of the fifth century B.C.E. — a struggle that ultimately spelled the decline and fall of both city-states — as a model of realism.
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The Shabab may be hatching a renewed bid to take over Somalia, which remains in varying degrees of turmoil, depending on the area, with the national government widely reviled as corrupt and weak, and small, clan-based city-states popping up across the country.
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The only pre-Roman urban civilisation on the Italian peninsula, Etruscan city-states in Tuscany, western Umbria and Lazio flourished as centres of culture and commerce from approximately the tenth to the first century BC, when they were defeated and assimilated into the Roman Republic.
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Because after several seasons of focusing on our main group and gonzo adversary X — the Governor, with his floating heads and dark mirror on small-town America; the cannibal cult in Terminus; random zombies — it appears we've entered a neoclassical era of clashing city-states.
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Created by lawyers, accountants and private bankers and operating out of a global archipelago of European principalities, former British colonies and Asian city-states, the system has one main purpose: to make the richest people in the world appear to own as little as possible.
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Speaking of plumbing, Bhaktapur, a small city some eight miles east of Kathmandu and the center of a third of the once-independent city-states in the Kathmandu Valley, was until a few years ago something of an open-air toilet, or so Sanjay explained.
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She said the northern city states of Hamburg and Bremen had signed agreements with some Muslim organizations so that Muslim pupils could have such time off school and workers could take holidays for festivals important to Islam, adding that some other states did the same.
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The prologue tells the story of the city-states of the Guilds as an industrial activity while the Weavers retreated to their island, the transgression of Lady Cygna Threadbare in having her son Bobbin, which set up the unravelling that will take place in the game.
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In Saturday's statement, the left-wing premieres, including the mayors of the three city-states of Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen, and the minister-president of Lower Saxony, a major industrial region, demanded a "pact of humanity" under which vulnerable refugees could be shared out across the country.
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For the leader of isolated North Korea and his delegation of dozens of officials, state media workers and security staff, the rare foreign trip is an opportunity to build diplomatic bridges and to explore the capitalist successes in Singapore, one of the world's wealthiest city-states.
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The spirit of M.A.C. was similarly splintered, but typical of a country that, despite it's mid-19th-century unification, never quite moved past its social, cultural, and psychological temperament as a collection of city-states, the differences were as much about regional factions as they were about singular personalities.
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But over time, as new forms of governance appeared — city-states, kingdoms and especially empires, which controlled vast colonies with different races, cultures and languages — tribalism came to be seen as crude and antiquated, a political structure that could never hope to address the challenges of large states.
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During the plague epidemic of the 14th century, European city-states posted armed guards on roads and access points to keep out merchants, people with leprosy and minority groups such as Jews, according to Eugenia Tognotti, a researcher in Italy who has written on the history of quarantine.
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But with the emergence of groups like the Kingdom, the Hilltop and the Saviors, to go along with the Alexandrians and Wolves, the show might be entering a period of clashing colonies, forming a sort of backwoods parallel to the ancient warring city-states like Sparta and Athens, but with zombies.
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Rather than a gleaming state-of-the-art hub for its staff of 30, Osteria Francescana has a cramped network of kitchens occupying a scattershot orbit around it — think of an ant farm, or maybe Italy itself, awkwardly formed (after centuries of turmoil) from a coalition of neighboring city-states.
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Xcalumkín, she told us, had likely existed since the beginning of the millennium but, like most settlements in this part of the peninsula, would have flourished between the 8th and 10th centuries, part of a vast network of city-states and vassal towns that made up the classical Maya world.
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" Section 117.1 of Building, Fire, and Related Codes of Baltimore City states: "In an emergency where life, health, safety, or property is in immediate danger, the Building Official may immediately take any action necessary to protect the endangered life, health, safety, or property, without complying with the notice provisions of this Code.
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However, Google intended to build a "Google-earth-like" surveillance system that would allow Pentagon analysts to "click on a building and see everything associated with it" and build graphs of objects like vehicles, people, land features, and large crowds for "the entire city," states one email recapping a Maven kickoff meeting with Pentagon representatives.
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Some scientists have suggested that the Neolithic Revolution characterized by the emergence of agriculture and city-states—the lifestyle shift that yielded modern civilization as we know it—was catalyzed by the low temperatures of the Younger Dryas, which depleted hunter-gatherer food sources and forced ancient peoples to cultivate crops in settlements to survive.
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We chide the ancient Greeks for relying on enslaved labor and the Romans for their imperial wars, but our own story, as we imagine it, still starts with those ancient city-states and their precursors in the Mesopotamian Middle East (basically modern Iraq), when some clever primates first planted rows of seeds, built mud-brick walls, and scratched cuneiform on a crude tablet.
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Since then, the fenced-in wilderness, a part of the Arabian Desert, has served as a protected habitat for a variety of indigenous mammals — hedgehogs, shrews, gazelles, Arabian hares and at least three species of bats — and a getaway spot for tourists and locals overwhelmed by the skyscraper-dominated megalopolis of Dubai, the most populous of seven city-states that comprise the United Arab Emirates.
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They don't seem to have had a common culture, either: their dialects fall on a continuum that linked city states across Phoenicia, Syria and Palestine, and the individual ports developed separate civic and artistic cultures, drawing on different foreign examples and relationships: Byblos, for instance, looked more to Egyptian models; Arados to Syrian ones; Sidonian architecture drew on both Greece and Persia; while Tyre cultivated close political and commercial ties with Jerusalem.
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