List of modern words formed from Greek polis

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This List of modern words formed from Greek polis recounts the use of the ancient Greek word polis to form modern names. The greatest modern use is in place names.

Derived common nouns
Derivatives of polis are common in many modern European languages. This is indicative of the influence of the polis-centred Hellenic world view. Derivative words in English include policy, polity, police, and politics. In Greek, words deriving from polis include politēs and politismos, whose exact equivalents in Latin, Romance, and other European languages, respectively civis ("citizen"), civilisatio ("civilisation"), etc., are similarly derived.

A number of other common nouns end in -polis. Most refer to a special kind of city or state. Examples include:
Acropolis ("high city"), Athens, Greece – although not a city-polis by itself, but a fortified citadel that consisted of functional buildings and the Temple in honor of the city-sponsoring god or goddess. The Athenian acropolis was the most famous of all acropolises in the ancient Greek World and its main temple was the Parthenon, in honor of Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin). More generally, Acropolis has been used to describe the upper part of a polis, often a citadel or the site of major temples.
Astropolis – a star-scaled city/industry area; a complex space station; a European star-related festival
Cosmopolis – a large urban centre with a population of many different cultural backgrounds; a novel written by Don DeLillo
Ecumenopolis – a city that covers an entire planet, usually seen in science fiction
Megalopolis – created by the merging of several cities and their suburbs
Metropolis – the mother city of a colony; the see of a metropolitan archbishop; a metropolitan area (major urban population centre)
Necropolis ("city of the dead") – a graveyard
Technopolis – a city with high-tech industry; a room of computers; the Internet

City names

City names with numbers
Others refer to part of a city or a group of cities, such as:

1. Polis, or Polis Chrysochous (), located on the northwest coast of Cyprus within the Paphos District and on the edge of the Akamas peninsula. During the Cypro-Classical period, Polis became one of the most important ancient Cypriot city-kingdoms on the island, with important commercial relations with the eastern Aegean Islands, Attica, and Corinth. The town is also well known due to its mythological history, including the site of the Baths of Aphrodite.

3. Tripolis – a group of three cities, retained in the names of Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli, Greece and Tripoli, Lebanon

4. Tetrapolis – a group of four cities

5. Pentapolis – a group of five cities

6. Hexapolis – a group of six cities

7. Heptapolis, Middle Egypt – a group of seven cities

8. Octapolis, in ancient Caria or Lycia – a group of eight cities

10. Decapolis, a group of ten cities in the Levant

12. Dodecapolis – a group of twelve cities

Descriptive city names
The names of several other towns and cities in Europe and the Middle East have contained the suffix -polis since antiquity or currently feature modernized spellings, such as -pol. Notable examples include:

Adrianopolis or Adrianople ("Hadrian's city"), present-day Edirne, Turkey
Alexandropol ("Alexandra's city"), currently Gyumri, Armenia
Alexandroupolis ("Alexander's city"), Greece
Antipolis ("the city across"), the former name for Antibes, France
Constantinopolis or Constantinople ("Constantine's city"), capital of Byzantine Empire.
Gallipoli (‘beautiful city’)
Heliopolis (‘Sun city’) in ancient and modern Egypt, Lebanon, and Greece
Heracleopolis ("Hercules' city"), Egypt
Hermopolis ("Hermes' city"), several cities in Egypt and on Siros Island
Hierakonpolis ("Hawk city"), Egypt
Hieropolis ("Sacred city"), several cities in the Hellenistic world, in particular Hierapolis in southwestern Turkey
Istanbul (derived from the Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" meaning "to the city"), Turkey.
Istropolis, currently Bratislava, Slovakia.
Lithopolis ("Stone city"), Latin name for Kamnik, Slovenia
Mariupol ("Marios' City"), Ukraine (Greek: Μαριούπολης, Marioupolis)
Megalopolis ("Great city"), Greece
Neapolis ("New city"), several, including the modern cities of Nablus and Naples (), and the adjective Neapolitan
Nicopolis ("Victory city"), Emmaus in Israel
Persepolis ("city of the Persians"), Iran
Philippopolis ("Philip's city"), the former name for Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Seuthopolis ("Seuthes' city"), Bulgaria
Sevastopol ("Venerable city"), Crimea, Ukraine
Simferopol ("city of common good"), Crimea, Ukraine
Sozopol ("Salvaged city"), Bulgaria
Stavropol ("city of the cross"), Russia
Tiraspol ("Tiras' city"), Moldova

Cities with the -polis suffix
The names of other cities were also given the suffix -polis after antiquity, either referring to ancient names or unrelated:
Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Augustinópolis, Tocantins, Brazil
Biopolis, Singapore
Borrazópolis, Parana, Brazil
Cambysopolis, Turkey
Cassopolis, Michigan, United States
Christianopel, Sweden
Copperopolis, California, United States
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, United States
Demopolis, Alabama, United States
Dianópolis, Tocantins, Brazil
Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Eunápolis, Bahia, Brazil
Florianópolis ("Floriano's city"), Santa Catarina, Brazil
Gallipolis, Ohio, United States
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States
Lithopolis, Ohio, United States
Marijampolė, Lithuania
Metropolis, Illinois, United States
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Opolis, Kansas, United States
Penápolis, São Paulo, Brazil
Petrópolis ("Pedro's city"), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Piopolis, Quebec, Canada
Pirenópolis, Goiás, Brazil
Quirinópolis, Goiás, Brazil
Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Rorainópolis, Roraima, Brazil
Salinópolis, Pará, Brazil
Sebastopol, California, United States
Sophia-Antipolis, France
Teresópolis ("Teresa's city"), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Teutopolis, Illinois, United States
Thermopolis, Wyoming, United States
Uniopolis, Ohio, United States

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