Sentence examples for mother cities from inspiring English sources

Colonial mother cities sometimes offered citizenship wholesale to their daughter communities.

Through physical rifts, monsters attack Telara's mother cities and just act like monsters, really.

It was the mother city of several Greek colonies.

Each group of emigrants took the speech of its mother city and planted it in the new foundation.

Because it was the site of the first European settlement in South Africa, Cape Town is known as the country's "mother city".

This looks forward to Athens' political exploitation, in the very near future, of its original role as Ionian mother city.

Two kinds of powerful interrelationship have already been noted that between colonizing or mother city and daughter city and the shared membership of an amphictyony.

About 800 bc a Phoenician colony was founded at Citium (Greek: Kition), near modern Larnaca, as a dependency of the mother city, Tyre.

While it's still shedding the coarse complexities of an impoverished past, Woodstock is evolving into the media hub of the country's "Mother City".

A large part of the answer is to be found in the changes recently made at the Ionian mother city Athens by Cleisthenes.

When, in 344, aristocrats of Syracuse appealed to their mother city of Corinth against their tyrant Dionysius II, Timoleon was chosen to lead a liberation force to Sicily.