described by the word synoikismos. in addition to the Latinized synoecism. Synoecism is opposed to Greek dioecism (διοικισμóς, dioikismos), the creation...

Synoecism can mean: Look up synoecism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Synoecism, Syniokismos, Sunoikismos, Synoecismus, the incorporation or conurbation...

a city", from which the English scholarly term synoecism derives. All poleis looked back to a synoecism under any name as their source of politeia. Not...

ancient city-state, the municipium was created by an official act of synoecism, or founding. This act removed the sovereignty and independence from the...

incorporated into the new city of Thessaloniki by the Macedonians on its synoecism and foundation. Little is known of literary Therma, including its exact...

of synoecism: residents of Carian villages nearby were relocated to the new capital city. Pliny the Elder, who incorrectly attributed the synoecism to...

"Location of the Greek cities participating in synoecism of Nicopolis"...

invaded there and subjugated the residents. The city of Elis underwent synoecism—as Strabo notes—in 471 BC. Elis held authority over the site of Olympia...

consensus that the city developed gradually through the aggregation ("synoecism") of several villages around the largest one, placed above the Palatine...

cities by synoecism, including Side, next to Theangela, Medmasa, Uranium, Pedasa and Telmissus. Strabo, however, points out that this synoecism would have...