colonia

Japanese: colonia
colonia

…the name of a city that was built mainly by the colonial activities of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In Greek it was called apoikia, and in Latin it was called colonia. The ancient civilizations of the West were primarily urban civilizations, but in Greece in particular the rise and fall of civilization was based on numerous city-states called polis.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "colonia" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…主として古代ギリシア人,ローマ人の植民活動によって建設された都市の総称。ギリシア語ではアポイキアapoikia,ラテン語ではコロニアcoloniaという。西洋の古代文明は主として都市の文明であったが,とりわけギリシアではポリスと呼ばれる多数の都市国家を基盤として文明が盛衰した。…

※「colonia」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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