isopolities

Noun

isopolity (countable and uncountable, plural isopolities)

1. Equal rights of citizenship in different communities; mutual political rights.
   • Isopolity...was a relation entered into by treaty between two perfectly equal and independent cities, mutually securing to their citizens all those privileges which a resident alien either could not exercise at all, or only through the mediation of a guardian; the right of intermarriage, of...1832, Barthold Niebuhr, The History of Rome, volume 2