<span>Eleven of the republics of the former Soviet Union are members of the commonwealth of independent states. The Commonwealth of Independent States was created when the Soviet Union dissolved and became Russia in 1991. Originally, it included ten of the former republics: Armenia, Kazakhstan, Molova, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan Taiikistan, and Ukraine.</span>
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A polis is usually used to describe Greek city states of ancient Greece such as Athens, "is controlled it self by a king democracy and so on".
a colony is territory or geographic area that has been placed under its control,