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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκληρουχία
- English todaycleruchy
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κληρουχία (klēroukhía), from κληροῦχος (klēroûkhos, “cleruch”); see cleruch.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cleruchy
Today it means: A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens. Full definition →
Ancient Greek κληρουχία