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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Greek antiquity, a public festival in Athens which commemorated the uniting by Theseus of all the towns of Attica under the leadership of Athens. Also
synoikia . - noun A community; a body of people living together, as in a city or a city block: sometimes equivalent to the Latin insula, a city block.
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