A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, Archaic and Classical Greece, Phoenicia, and early Italy.
The term city-state refers to a self-governing urban center and the agriculture territories it controlled.
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Birmingham was the birthplace of the modern world inventing steam power and was the first to use fossil fuels to produce power.
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Birmingham the Second City of the UK we salute you for your great advancement of world civilisation!
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