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noun - a Greek district
DEMES - In Ancient Greece, a deme or demos (Greek: ) was a suburb of Athens or a subdivision of Attica, the region of Greece surrounding Athens. Demes as si...
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Plural form of deme. |
A political division of Attica in ancient Greece. |
A subdivision of a population consisting of closely related plants, animals, or people, typically breeding mainly within the group. |
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In Ancient Greece, a deme or demos (Greek: ) was a suburb of Athens or a subdivision of Attica, the region of Greece surrounding Athens. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and earlier, but did not acquire particular significance until the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. In those reforms, enrollment in the citizen-lists of a deme became the requirement for citizenship; prior to that time, citizenship had been based on membership in a phratry, or family group. At this same time, demes were established in the city of Athens itself, where they had not previously existed; in all, at the end of Cleisthenes' reforms, Attica was divided into 139 demes to which one should add Berenikidai, established in 224/223 BC, Apollonieis (201/200 BC) and Antinoeis (126/127). The establishment of demes as the fundamental units of the state weakened the gene, or aristocratic family groups, that had dominated the phratries.A deme functione |