Who was the first to use the term ‘State’?

Q. Who was the first to use the term ‘State’?
Answer: Machiavelli
Notes: Machiavelli has been credited with formulating for the first time the “modern concept of the state”. The term ‘lo stato’ appears widely in Machiavelli’s writings, especially in The Prince, in connection with the acquisition and application of power in a coercive sense.

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