anoikism

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Noun[edit]

anoikism (uncountable)

  1. The splitting up of a town into smaller units
    As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it.
    • 1918, Allen Brown West, The History of the Chalcidic League, Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, page 25
      In one respect conditions were more favorable for the synoikism of Megalopolis than for the anoikism at Olynthos.

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