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- The oikistes (Gr****: οἰκιστής), often anglicized as oekist or oecist, was the individual chosen by an ancient Gr**** polis as the leader of any new colonization...
- cult: Oikist cults of founders. Such cults arose in colonies in the ****enic world in Magna Graecia and Sicily at the grave of the founder, the oikist. In...
- Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains a reference to an ecist, oekist or oikist, defining him as: "the founder of an ancient Gr**** ... colony". The English...
- colony at Apollonia was founded by a group of 200 Corinthians led by the oikist Gylax to an already existing trading post around 600 BC. J. J. Wilkes reports...
- Eusebius ****igns to Charmis of Sparta. Pausanias says that Chionis was an oikist at Battus of Thera's foundation (631 BC) of Cyrene, Libya. Paul Christesen...
- by Sparta, "only through posteriori". Also according to tradition, the oikist (“founder of the city”) Phalanthus who led the Parthenians, took council...