koinon

plural koina · plural koinons

1. An association or federation of distinct city-states with shared political institutions and citizenship.

   The Cretan Koinon as it is considered in the preceding chapters was similar in some respects to other Greek koina.

   1989, Maurice van der Mijnsbrugge, The Cretan Koinon, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, page 35

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   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.

   1977, Epigraphica: rivista italiana di epigrafia, page 7

   Other decrees relating to koinons give them security from taxes or from being drafted for military service in foreign states. The koinons were associations of various kinds, groups of worshippers, guilds of craftsmen, federations of states, groups of magistrates. Koinons of Asclepiasts, worshippers of Asclepius, functioned and left monuments in Athens, Colyphon, and elsewhere.

   1990, Wesley D. Smith, “Introduction”, in Hippocrates: Pseudepigraphic Writings, E. J. Brill, →ISBN, section “The Speeches and Medical History”, page 15

   Apart from these village koinons, there were two large koinons in the Karian history that had a national standing.

   2007, An Anatolian Civilisation in the Aegean Karia: (Karuwa/Karka/Karkisha/Krk), →ISBN, page 21

   After their overwhelming victory against the Spartans at Leuktra, the Boiotians likewise found ritual action a powerful means of undergirding the new and hard-won but still compromised participation of the entire region in the koinon.

   2013, Emily Mackil, “Cultic Communities”, in Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon, University of California Press, section “Legitimating and Celebrating the Power of the Koinon”, page 214

   The cases of the Ionian and Euboian koina serve to further underline how misleading these mainland Greek koina can be as models for reconstructing the institutional structures of koina in the rest of the Greek world.

   2019, Aneurin Ellis-Evans, “The Hellenistic Koinon of the Lesbians”, in The Kingdom of Priam: Lesbos and the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean, Oxford University Press, →LCCN, section 2 (The Refoundation of the Lesbian Koinon), subsection 5 (Deliberative Bodies and Magistrates of the Koinon), page 214