cleruchy (English, noun)
expansion: cleruchy (plural cleruchies)
Senses:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: cleruchies
tags: plural