Tetrapolis

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of four cities.

    "We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]"

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"We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]"

Etymology

From Greek τετράπολις.

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