A cleruchy (Greek: κληρουχία, klēroukhia) in Classical Greece, was a specialized type of colony established by Athens. The term comes from the Greek word...

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found in ports and could be considered to be the reverse of a politeum. A cleruchy (Greek: κληρουχία) was a colony, typically Athenian, which despite being...

in his Life of Perikles, says that the Athenians established a colony ("cleruchy")"a thousand to dwell among the Thracian tribe of the Bisaltae." This colony...

near or in enemy territory. They may have been similar to the Athenian cleruchy. The colonists were given large estates up to 35 hectares. They lost their...

establish Athenian colonists in the region. Thus Pericles starts a policy of cleruchy (klerouchos) or "out-settlements". This is a form of colonisation where...

until the Macedonian empire absorbed it. By 450 BC, Lemnos was an Athenian cleruchy. The Athenian settlers brought with them Athenian drama, dated to at least...

entitlement to private ownership of land (previously rare under the Ptolemaic cleruchy system of allotments under royal ownership) and the local administration...

Ptolemies also created a cleruchy system in order to collect revenue from these plots of land. The addition of the cleruchy system allowed for "the diversification...

with the Athenians, who expelled the ruling aristocracy and settled a cleruchy on the site. Chalcis subsequently became a member of both the Delian Leagues...

into the Delian League in 478 BC. The Athenians established a number of cleruchies on the Thracian Chersonese and sent an additional 1,000 settlers around...

which Athens was awarded with Sestos and Krithotai in the same year. A cleruchy was established at Sestos in 364, but the city was conquered by Cotys I...

building of the "middle wall" about 440 BC), and on the creation of new cleruchies, such as Andros, Naxos and Thurii (444 BC) as well as Amphipolis (437–436 BC)...

Peloponnesian War (431 BC) Athens expelled the Aeginetans and established a cleruchy in their island. The exiles were settled by Sparta in Thyreatis, on the...

crime. Euthyphro had evidently farmed on Naxos, probably as part of the cleruchy established by Pericles in 447 to which his father may have belonged. If...

(syntaxeis) from their allies and established an aggressive colony (a cleruchy) on Samos in the 360s BCE. Demosthenes described the outbreak of the Social...

place to settle the excess citizenry of Athens, usually in the form of cleruchies, colonies which were not politically independent of the mother city. After...

towards Athens, and in 477 had to be coerced by the establishment of a cleruchy on the island; nevertheless, in 411 Andros proclaimed its freedom, and...

seize the islands of Scyros, Imbros, and Lemnos, on which it established cleruchies (citizen colonies). As a reward for his success, Pharnabazus was allowed...

στενοχωρία) which helps explain Greek colonialism and the importance of the cleruchies of Asia Minor in controlling the supply of wheat. The olive tree and grapevine...

year, only Methymna was spared from having its territory turned into a cleruchy. After 427, Methymna and Chios were the only members of the Delian League...

seize the islands of Scyros, Imbros, and Lemnos, on which it establishes cleruchies (citizen colonies). Fighting breaks out in Corinth between the democratic...

appears. In classical antiquity, Imbros, like Lemnos, was an Athenian cleruchy, a colony whose settlers retained Athenian citizenship; although since...

establish Athenian colonists in the region. Thus Pericles starts a policy of cleruchy (klerouchos) or "out-settlements". This is a form of colonisation where...

seize the islands of Scyros, Imbros, and Lemnos, on which it established cleruchies (citizen colonies). As a reward for his success, Pharnabazus was allowed...

with the other cities of the island except for Methymna, had an Athenian cleruchy imposed on it. In the latter part of the Peloponnesian War, Eresos went...

archons in office (at least for the trierarchy); and citizen soldiers (see Cleruchy) or invalids. In addition, citizens or resident aliens might be granted...

punishment. Apparently, Athenian domination sometimes took the form of cleruchies (for example on Naxos and Andros). At the beginning of the Peloponnesian...

stenokhôría) also explains Greek colonization, and the importance Anatolian cleruchies would have for the Athenian empire in controlling grain provision. On...

century by settlers from its colony Abdera might have been a similar case. Cleruchy Gruen, Erich S. (1986). The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome. Berkeley...