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cleruchies

cleruchies is the plural of cleruchy.

Meaning of cleruchy

Noun

cleruchy (plural cleruchies)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) 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.

Questions about cleruchies

What is cleruchies the plural of?
Cleruchies is the plural of cleruchy.

Words near cleruchies in the dictionary

  1. cleruch
  2. cleruchia
  3. cleruchial
  4. cleruchias
  5. cleruchic
  6. cleruchies
  7. cleruchs
  8. cleruchy
  9. Clervaux
  10. Clerve
  11. Clery

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