the City-States/the city-states

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the City-States/the city-states

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From the geography section of this site:
This resulted in bitter resentment between the city-states, creating the foundation for the eventual fragmentation and destruction of the Alliance.

Southwindow's flag symbolizes the four rivers that flow into Lake Dunan.

Shouldn't the "city-states" be in capital, i.e. "City-States," since it's specifically referring to the Jowston City-States? If not, then how come?

Not to criticize, but I need to know what's correct for my translation of Luca's short story.
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City-States should be capitilized.
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The sentence is not referring to Jowston as a single country (i.e. not a shorthand of "City-States of Jowston"), but the constituent city-state members. Lowercase is preferable.
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In the game, is it always "City-States of Jowston," and never "Jowston City-States?"

Now that brings up the question of:
Is "City-States of Jowston" even correct? Maybe it should be lower case?

The city of New York
The City of New York

The City-States of Jowston
The city-states of Jowston
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Post by Angelis_Taleria »

Well, usually places like Athens and Sparta are city states and city state is not capitilized when in reference to them, but I thought City-State was part of the name rather than solely the type of government. Since this is the case, Patapi is correct.
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