Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A system of colonization of conquered territory practised by the ancient Athenians from 506
b. c. - noun A colony constituted under this system.
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- noun A form of
Athenian colony in the time ofAncient Greece .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek κληρουχία (klēroukhia), from κληροῦχος (klēroukhos, "cleruch"); see cleruch.
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Examples
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Breaking its promise, Athens sent a cleruchy to garrison its ally Samos.
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Pericles then crossed back to Euboea, crushed the revolt, and established a cleruchy in Histaiaea.
c. 450 2001
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If an ally rebelled, part of its lands were confiscated and an Athenian colony (cleruchy) was established, which served both a military purpose and a civil one to help relieve unemployment at Athens.
478-477 2001
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Around the same time, the Athenians developed a new kind of colony, the cleruchy.
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League it remained disaffected towards Athens, and in 447 had to be coerced by the settlement of a cleruchy.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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