demogerontia
English
Alternative forms
- dimogerontia
Etymology
From Greek δημογεροντία (dimogerontía)
Noun
demogerontia (plural demogerontias)
- (historical) A local government in Greece.
- 1836, Finlay, John, “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, Volonakes, Michael D., 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).
Related terms
- demogeron
Translations
local government in Greece
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