Note: Literaturangaben , Mit Reg , A collection of revised papers contributed to a symposium held January 5-9, 1999 at the Copenhagen Polis Centre, with some additional contributions , Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Commission Agent: C.A. Reitzels Forlag - Copenhagen 2000 , INTRODUCTION: The concepts of city-state and city-state culture , THE ANCIENT WORLD: Les petits Etats mésopotamiens à la fin du 4e et au cours du 3e millénaire , The city-state in ancient Western Syria , The Palestinian city-states of the Bronze Age , The old Assyrian city-state , The early Phoenician city-states on the Mediterranean. Archaeological elements for their description , The city-states of the early Neo-Babylonian period , The Philistine city-states , The Hellenic Polis , The Etruscan city-state , The city-states in Latium , 'Celtic' oppida , Mecca and Medina. Arab city-states or Arab caravan-cities? , Viking Dublin and the city-state concept. Parameters and significance of the Hiberno-Norse settlement , Novgorod, Kiev and their satellites. The city-state model and the Viking Age polities of European Russia , The rise and fall of Italian city-states , Imperial and free towns of the Holy Roman Empire--city states in pre-modern Germany? , Riechsstadt, eidgenössischer Ort, städtische Territorialherrschaft. Zu den Anfängen der Stadstaaten im Gebiet der heutigen Schweiz ; Summary : the formation of Swiss city-states (13th-15th centuries) , The Dutch Republic's city-state culture (17th-18th centuries) , ASIA: The city-state in spring-and-autumn China , Mahajanapada states of early historic India , Ancient city-states of the Tarin Basin , City-states and city-state cultures in pre-15th century Southeast Asia , Negeri. The culture of Malay-speaking city-states of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , A regional explanation of the Tai Müang as a city-state , AFRICA: Le Mzâb cité-état , The Swahili city-state culture , The Hausa city-states from 1450 to 1804 , Yoruba as a city-state culture , City-state culture on the Gold Coast : Fante city-states in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , The Kotoko city-states , The city-states of the Eastern Niger Delta , MESOAMERICA: The city-states of the Maya , Mixtec city-states and Mixtec city-state culture , Aztec city-states , CONCLUSION: The impact of city-state cultures on world history , Beitr. überw. engl., teilw. franz., teilw. dt.