synoecism
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɪˈniːsɪzəm/
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.
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.
- French: synœcisme
- Italian: sinecismo
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