A ‘polis’ (πόλις, pronunciation pol’-is) plural: poleis (πόλεις) is a city, a city-state and also citizenship and body of citizens. When used to describe classical Athens and its contemporaries, polis is often translated as "city-state." The word originates from the ancient Greek city-states, which developed during the Archaic period, the ancestor of city, state and citizenship, and persisted (though with decreasing influence) well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning ‘citizenhood …

The Greek word Meteora means "suspended in the air", and our words meteorite and meteorology come from the same root. The conglomerate rock at Meteora, Greece, has eroded into …

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Acropolis is a Greek word meaning ‘high city‘. The Acropolis, a fortified citadel built atop a massive limestone hill, dominates the city of Athens, Greece.