The nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them,encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic,boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.

AllthatIcan findtosayisthataaexistswhenasignificantnuimberofpeopleinacommunityconsider themselvesformanation,orbehaveasiftheyformedone.

nthiswayheimpliesthat‘true’communitiesexistwhichcanbeadvantageously juxtaposedtonations,Infact,allcommunitieslargerthanprimordialvillages offace-to-face contact(andperhapseekthese)areimagined.Communitiesaretobedistinguished, notbytheir falsity/genuineness,butbythe styleinwhichtheymeeima.gined.

nation:itisanimaginedpoliticalcommunity—andimaginedasbothinherentlylimited andsovereign.

the irremediableparticularity of its concrete manifestations, such that, by definition,‘Greek’ nationality is sui generis.