metropoles

Is it then any wayes probable that this ſhould be chosen for a Metropolis, in ſuch an abundance of fair and rich Cities as lay thereabout? But a Salvo is found out for Plinyes not mentioning them as Metropoles, because the addition of theſe two in other Cities, ſeemeth to have been made when Veſpaſian added thoſe many new Provinces to the old Government which Suetonius ſpeaks of;

1662, Edward Stillingfleete, Irenicum. A Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds. Or the Divine Right of Particular Forms of Church-Government, the second edition, London: […] R. I. for Henry Mortlock, page 360

The reaſon why the Apoſtles wrote to the Churches that were in the cities which were Metropoles, was to ſhew that all the Churches which were in that Province did depend upon that Metropolis Government;[…]2ly. Are you ſure theſe were all Metropoles? It ſeems there is ſome queſtion about Philadelphia, and your ſolution does not ſatisfie. So for Thyatira, it ſeems Pliny doth not give it this honour, but Ptolomy doth. So that we muſt reſt upon a Humane Faith, and prove which of theſe was the trueſt Writer.[…]3ly. But are you ſure there were no more Churches in Aſia than fell under the ſeven Archbiſhops? Which of theſe was Archbiſhop to the Churches in Galatia? that was a Province in Aſia; but none of theſe Cities Metropolis there, for Ancyra was. Antioch a Metropolis then under none of theſe, yet there was a Church. To which I pray did Coloſſe belong? Cappadocia, Pontus, Bithinia, were all Provinces in Aſia, and in theſe were Churches no doubt, for the Apoſtle writing to the Believers in theſe Provinces, 1 Pet. 1. 1. in the 5th Chap. v. 1, 2. He charges the Elders to feed the flock. Yet none of the ſeven Churches were Metropoles in any of theſe Provinces.

1681, The Questions Between the Conformist and Nonconformist, Truly Stated, and Briefly Discussed, London: […] Tho. Cockerill, pages 95–96

Another field in which the dependency theory has had a significant impact, is in explaining the emergency of the Third World metropolis. Today, not less than 40% of all metropoles in the world are located in Asia alone.[…]The European metropolis shows characteristics of both, says Angotti, as it is in general an expression of a mixed economy, but with more and more elements of the US metropolis. European metropoles are smaller, more compact and less sprawled, and tend to be more integrated in both social and land-use terms than the metropolis in the United States.

1999, Alain R.A. Jacquemin, Urban Development and New Towns in the Third World: Lessons from the New Bombay Experience, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, pages 32–34