demogeron

plural demogerontes · plural demogerons

1. Member of a demogerontia.

   This Council was called Demogerontia (municipality) and was composed of twelve members named municipal councillors, of one treasurer, and of the president of the Council, called Demogeron (mayor).

   1922, Michael D. Volonakes, The Island of Roses and Her Eleven Sisters: Or, The Dodecanese from the Earliest Time Down to the Present Day, page 299

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   Local demogerontes of Larnaca, Paphos (Ktema), Limasol and Chrysochou are mentioned in connexion with the massacre of 1821, as well as a demogeron of the tribunal of Nicosia and two demogerontes of the Saray (Kepiades, pp. 17, 19, 20).

   2010 [1954], George Hill, A History of Cyprus, volume 4, Cambridge University Press, page 9

   The affairs of the city of Athens were run by the demogerons, a group of elected elders, usually landed gentlemen. The demogerons appointed a committee to take charge of the preparations for the reception of the king, [...]

   1989, Eleni Bastea, The Rebirth of Athens: Planning and Architecture in the 19th Century