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‖ tetrapolis|tɪˈtræpəlɪs|
[a. Gr. τετράπολις of four cities; also n.]
A district of four cities; a state or political division consisting of four towns.
1846Grote Greece i. v. I. 141 The inhabitants of the insignificant tetrapolis of Doris Proper. 1884Boscawen Lect. in Builder 6 Dec., It was a tribe called the Akkadians who..founded the tetrapolis of Nimrod. |