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synoecism
synoecism
See also: synœcism
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synoecism (plural synoecisms)
- (Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.
- 1886, English History Review, 1886, I, pg 636.
- They always remained separate states and were never synoikised.
- 1887, Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual & Religion, I, pg 266.
- Legends...current before the villages were synoecised into Athens.
- (Can we date this quote?) Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XXX. 529/2.
- When the town was first formed...by the synœcism of the neighboring villages.
- 1886, English History Review, 1886, I, pg 636.