demogerontia

plural demogerontias · alternative dimogerontia

1. historicalA local government in Greece.

   Why may not the national spirit of Greece be as well preserved by her Demogerontias, as England had hers by her hundreds?

   1836, John Finlay, “The Hellenic Kingdom and the Great Nation”, in The Monthly Review, volume 3, page 539

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   But the Cabinets of the Continent were not then disposed to protect institutions that contained a principle of self-government, and the British Government, as a member of the protective alliance, became a consenting party to the suppression of those native institutions, called demogerontias, which had given the Greeks something of an organized commissariat during the revolutionary war.

   1868, The Saturday Review, volume 25, London, page 274

   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