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In Ancient Greece, a deme or demos (Ancient Greek: δῆμος, plural: demoi, δήμοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside existed in the 6th century BC and earlier, but did not acquire particular significance until the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC.
Decelea (Ancient Greek: Δεκέλεια, Greek pronunciation: [ðe.ˈce.ʎa]), Dekéleia), was a deme and ancient village in northern Attica serving as a trade route connecting Euboea with Athens, Greece.
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A deme was a subdivision of Athens in ancient Greece. Deme may also refer to: Deme, an alternative name for the municipalities of Greece (Greek: δήμος, dhímos; pl. δήμοι, dhímoi) Dèmè, Benin; Deme (biology), a local population of organisms of one species that actively interbreed with one another and share a distinct gene pool
Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.
Acharnae or Acharnai (/ ə ˈ k ɑːr. n iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀχαρναί) [1] was a deme of ancient Athens. It was part of the phyle Oineis. [2] Acharnae, according to Thucydides, was the largest deme in Attica. [3] In the fourth century BCE, 22 of the 500 members of the Athenian council came from Acharnae, more than from any other deme. [4]
When Cleisthenes formally established the deme system in 508/7 BC, Kydathenaion was the third largest deme after Acharnae and Aphidna. [1] Its population is estimated to have been around 3,300–3,600 people. [2] Kydathenaion was one of the five demes located within the walls of the city of Athens (alongside Koile, Kollytos, Melite, and ...
Paeania or Paiania (Ancient Greek: Παιανία) were two demoi of ancient Attica, divided into Upper Paeania and Lower Paeania, that were situated on the eastern side of Hymettus, near the modern village of Liopesi renamed to Paiania. It was the deme of Demosthenes. [1] [2]