Usually means: Unification of villages into city.
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  1. synoecism: Merriam-Webster
  2. synoecism: Collins English Dictionary
  3. synoecism: Wiktionary
  4. Synoecism (disambiguation), Synoecism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. synoecism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  6. synoecism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.

Similar:
dioecism, Enosis, koinon, city state, panhellenism, anoikism, Ecumenopolitan, metropolis, amphictyony, symposiac, more...

Opposite:
dispersion, segregation, fragmentation

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Similar:
dioecism, Enosis, koinon, city state, panhellenism, anoikism, Ecumenopolitan, metropolis, amphictyony, symposiac, more...

Opposite:
dispersion, segregation, fragmentation



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