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For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction on a smaller scale for their region, the concept of the [[regiopolis]] ("regio" for short) was introduced by urban and regional planning researchers in Germany in 2006.<ref>Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther (FG Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Universität Kassel): Presentation "Regiopole Rostock". December 11, 2008. Retrieved June 13, 2009 (pdf).</ref> | For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction on a smaller scale for their region, the concept of the [[regiopolis]] ("regio" for short) was introduced by urban and regional planning researchers in Germany in 2006.<ref>Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther (FG Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Universität Kassel): Presentation "Regiopole Rostock". December 11, 2008. Retrieved June 13, 2009 (pdf).</ref> | ||
==Etymology== | |||
Metropolis (μητρόπολις) is a [[Greek language|Greek]] word, coming from μήτηρ, ''mḗtēr'' meaning "mother" and πόλις, ''pólis'' meaning "city" or "town", which is how the [[Greek colonisation|Greek colonies]] of antiquity referred to their original cities, with whom they retained cultic and political-cultural connections. 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]] to whom [[suffragan bishop]]s were responsible.<ref>Louis Boisgibault, Fahad Al Kabbani (2020): [http://www.iste.co.uk/book.php?id=1591 ''Energy Transition in Metropolises, Rural Areas and Deserts'']. Wiley - ISTE. (Energy series) {{ISBN|9781786304995}}.</ref> This usage equates the province with the [[diocese]] or [[episcopal see]].<ref>"metropolis, n." ''OED Online'', Oxford University Press, June 2017, www.oed.com/view/Entry/117704. Retrieved December 19, 2017; "polis, n.2." ''OED Online'', Oxford University Press, June 2017, www.oed.com/view/Entry/146859. Retrieved December 19, 2017.</ref> | |||
In a colonial context, it is the "mother city" of a [[colony]], that is, the city which sent out settlers. The word has distant roots in the [[Greek colonisation|colonial past of Ancient Greece]] with first usage in [[Middle English]] around the 14th century.<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metropolis#h1 Merriam-Webster]</ref> This was later generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or any large, important city in a nation.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} | |||
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