There aren’t many examples of modern city states to begin with. San Marino and Monaco could disappear overnight and not many people would care. Hong Kong and Macau were tokens, pawns that changed hands in the colonial Great Game, but that never really controlled their destiny.
Obvious exceptions are Vatican City and Singapore, which benefit from different kinds of safety. But there is no region that remains in the world like medieval Italy or the Holy Roman Empire, or classical Greece. All of them got swallowed.
Obvious exceptions are Vatican City and Singapore, which benefit from different kinds of safety. But there is no region that remains in the world like medieval Italy or the Holy Roman Empire, or classical Greece. All of them got swallowed.