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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5949838" data-attributes="member: 2093">I'm thinking of designing a region of my campaign world that is a group of competing city-states.In reading about the concept of what makes a city-state, I'm not coming up with what I feel is some basic info I need to wrap my head around to plan this mini-setting region.How big would a dark-ages or early-medieval city state be? What would be the smallest, and the largest city sizes? How much land would a city-state be able to control around it? Can a city state have "client-towns" or even small cities? How many before it becomes a nation rather than a city-state? Anyone with some historical knowledge or just some off-the-top ideas want to discuss?Also, as a follow-up, describe what you think an interesting candidate city for this region might be (I'm thinking AT MINIMUM I want 5-7 cities, maybe more, and I want each to be rather different from its neighbors). I'll describe my 2-3 main ideas later.</blockquote>