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In ancient Greece, the district inhabited by a group that formed an independent community. These small communities gradually became joined together into larger ones, and the word came to signify a country district, a township, or a parish. The 139 demes of Attica were the basic units of the government of Attica as remodelled by the Athenian statesman Cleisthenes 508 BC.



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