Look up: colonus

1. Colonus
   (Latin) Roman colonist; the earliest colonists were members of Roman families who lived at ports and retained Roman citizenship because the communities they were part of were too small to be their own states; under the late Republic and Empire, colonization expanded over a much larger territory to the east and west.
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2. Colonus
   archaic or obsolete terms > Occupations:Farmer or husbandman.
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3. Colonus
   Ancient village of Attica, Greece, now an area in central Athens. The ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles (5th century BC) was born here, and immortalized the village in his play Oedipus at...
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4. colonus
   tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and the European Middle Ages. The coloni were drawn from impoverished small free farmers, partially ... [5 related articles]
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5. Colonus
   ! align="center" colspan="2" | Statistics ! colspan="2" | Map In Ἵππειος Κολωνός, "Colonus of the Horses"-->) was a deme about 1 km (1 mile) to the northwest of Athens, near Plato`s Academy. There is al...
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6. Colonus
   (person) A `colonus` was a type of Roman peasant farmer, a serf. This designation was carried into the Medieval period for much of Europe. Coloni worked on large Roman estates called "latifundia" and could never leave. Latifundia raised sheep and other types of cattle. Traditionally...
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