Deme

Deme (Gr. dēmos), a subdivision of ancient Attica and of modern Greece. The dēmoi were townships or hundreds, subdivisions of the phulai, and were equivalent to the Dorian kōmai, Lat. pagi; in the time of Herodotus they were 100 in number (10 in each phulē), afterwards 170; their origin was commonly referred to Theseus. The word dēmos early came to be applied to the commons, and survives significantly in our democracy and demagogue.