SYNOECISM

Etymology

Noun

synoecism (plural synoecisms)

(Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XXX. 529/2.

Source: Wiktionary



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