[a. Gr. τετράπολις of four cities; also sb.] A district of four cities; a state or political division consisting of four towns.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. v. I. 141. The inhabitants of the insignificant tetrapolis of Doris Proper.
1884. Boscawen, Lect., in Builder, 6 Dec. It was a tribe called the Akkadians who … founded the tetrapolis of Nimrod.
