- One of the townships of ancient Attica.
- Ecology. A local, usually stable population of interbreeding organisms of the same kind or species.
[Greek dēmos, people, land.]
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[Greek dēmos, people, land.]
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A population of animals with very similar physical characteristics, which interbreed and occupy a limited geographic region. Called also a genetic population.
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In Ancient Greece, a deme (δῆμος) was a subdivision of Attica, the region of Greece surrounding Athens. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and earlier, but did not acquire particular significance until the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. In those reforms, enrollment in the citizen-lists of a deme became the requirement for citizenship; prior to that time, citizenship had been based on membership in a phratry, or family group. At this same time, demes were established in the city of Athens itself, where they had not previously existed; in all, at the end of Cleisthenes' reforms, Attica was divided into 139 demes. The establishment of demes as the fundamental units of the state weakened the geneed one trittys from each of three regions, the city, the coast, and the inland area.
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The term deme (dēmos) survived into the Hellenistic and Roman eras. By the time of the Byzantine Empire, the term was used to refer to one of the four chariot racing factions, the Reds, the Blues, the Greens and the Whites.
In modern Greece, the term dēmos is used to denote the municipalities.
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