Greek city-state
The crossword clue "Greek city-state" is answered by SPARTA, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 1999; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SPARTA
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARTA answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 1999; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- CORINTH (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for SPARTA
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPARTA, most used first.
- Rival of Athens - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Peloponnesian War victor - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Athens rival - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Lacedaemon - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
- Ancient Greek city - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Ancient rival of Athens - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Ancient foe of Athens - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Ancient Greek military power - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Athens' ancient rival - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Ancient Athens rival - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Ancient Greek city-state - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Ancient capital of Laconia - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- "In the Heat of the Night" setting - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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