demogerontia

English

Alternative forms

• dimogerontia

Etymology

From Greek δημογεροντία (dimogerontía).

Noun

demogerontia (plural demogerontias)

1. (historical) A local government in Greece.
   • 1836, John Finlay, “The Hellenic Kingdom and the Great Nation”, in The Monthly Review‎^[1], 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^[2], 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, Michael D. Volonakes, The Island of Roses and Her Eleven Sisters: Or, The Dodecanese from the Earliest Time Down to the Present Day‎^[3], 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

• French: démogérontie (fr) f
• German: Demogerontie
• Greek: δημογεροντία (el) f (dimogerontía)
• Italian: demogeronzia f
• Russian: демогеронтия f (demogerontija)