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Last to leave Slavonic city state (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

polis

'city state' is the definition.
(I know that polis is a type of city state)

'last to leave slavonic' is the wordplay.
'last to leave' means to remove the last letter.
'slavonic' becomes 'Polish' (Polish is an example).
'polish' with its last letter taken away is 'POLIS'.

(Another definition for polis that I've seen is " Scottish law enforcers".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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