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The political nature of Stagira’s “place” is equally ambiguous. Mogens H. Hansen (1995, 75) describes it as “the borderland” between city-state and municipality, an entity that transgresses conventional (oppositional) principles of territorial identification, bearing characteristics of both an independent entity (polis) in Hellas and a dependent entity (ko̅me̅) associated with barbarian habitations in Macedon. Stagira, Aristotales'in doğduğu kenttir. (DrOS)