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Metropolis
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or (Gr. µijrr i p, mother, rats, city), properly a mother-city, and so the name of the parent state from which colonies were founded in ancient Greece (see Greece, sect. History, Ancient). The word was used in post-classical Latin for the chief city of a province, the seat of the government, and in particular ecclesiastically for the seat or see of a metropolitan bishop (see Metropolitan). It is thus used now for the capital of a country, which contains the various official buildings of the administrative departments, the Houses of Parliament, &c. In the case of London, the term "metropolitan" is sometimes applied to the whole area including the "City of London," e.g. " Metropolitan Asylums Board"; and sometimes, as in "Metropolitan Police," excludes the City, which has its own police force (see London).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Metropolis'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/metropolis.html. 1910.
