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Megalopolis   Listen
noun
Megalopolis, Megapolis  n.  
1.
A chief city; a very large cuity; a metropolis.
2.
A region in which the suburbs of several large cities merge to form one large predominantly urbanized area.





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... the Eleans he delivered up Aliphera; which city, they insisted, had never belonged to Triphylia, but ought to be restored to them, having been one of those that were incorporated by the council of the Arcadians for the founding of Megalopolis. These measures had the effect of strengthening his connexion with the Achaeans. The affections of the Macedonians he conciliated by his treatment of Heraclides: for, finding that his having countenanced this man had been the cause to him of the ...
— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius


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