demogerontia

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Etymology

From Greek δημογεροντία (dimogerontía).

Noun

demogerontia (plural demogerontias)

  1. (historical) A local government in Greece.
    • 1836, John Finlay, “The Hellenic Kingdom and the Great Nation”, in The Monthly Review‎, volume 3, page 539:
      Why may not the national spirit of Greece be as well preserved by her Demogerontias, as England had hers by her hundreds?
    • 1868, The Saturday Review‎, volume 25, London, page 274:
      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.
    • 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:
      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).

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