cleruchi

Updated: May 12, 2025

But now, under the name of Cleruchi , a new description of colonists arose colonists by whom the mother country not only draughted off a redundant population, or rid herself of restless adventurers, but struck the roots of her empire in the various places that came under her control. In the classic as in the feudal age, conquest gave the right to the lands of the conquered country.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete