On august 6, 1945, the bomber enola gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of hiroshima, marking the first time japan was bombed in wwii.

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.