Koinon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Koinon is a noun meaning An association or federation of distinct city-states with shared political institutions and citizenship.
Meaning
An association or federation of distinct city-states with shared political institutions and citizenship.
Example Sentences
The Cretan Koinon as it is considered in the preceding chapters was similar in some respects to other Greek koina.
Apart from these village koinons, there were two large koinons in the Karian history that had a national standing.
While some koinons were formed by a military takeover by a dominant community, most were voluntary associations between geographically contiguous communities.
Greek koina have their own chronological and local particularities, and in spite of the existence of certain analogies, these cannot be followed absolutely or be considered valid in all cases.
Word Forms
- koina
- koinons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include amphictyony, synoecism, civitas, ideopolis, synclite, oikos.
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