1849: The American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society, p607
And in the poleis founded by the heirs of Alexander the Great in the east, like Seleucia on the Tigris, it was precisely the broad mass of natives who were excluded from citizenship.
1968: Lee Cameron MacDonald, Western Political Theory, p56
In practice, of course, most poleis base citizenship on parentage rather than on Aristotle’s definition.
2004: Mogens Herman & Thomas Heine Nielsen Hansen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, pXIX
There were some 1,500 poleis altogether, and they were spread over the entire Mediterranean world.
