Tetrapolis

Tetrapolis (from the Greek Τετράπολις, tetra for four and polis for city, i.e. four- city federation ) denoted in ancient times:

• one of the twelve districts into which Attica was divided before the time of Theseus, see Tetrapolis (Attica)
• four cities close to each other in the central Greek landscape of Doris
• the Tetrapolis in the Seleucid heartland and later the Roman province of Syria, see Tetrapolis (Syria)
• the city of Antioch on the Orontes, part of the Syrian Tetrapolis, alone
• the Tetrapolis on the island of Kefalonia, see Tetrapolis (Kefalonia)

See also:

• Upper Lusatian four-city federation
• Confessio Tetrapolitana

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.