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Synoecism

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Synoecism 

in such ancient states as Greece and Rome, the uniting of several independent settlements or cities into a single polis (city-state). Synoecism resulted in the gradual elimination of tribal fragmentation, the emergence of central government, the strengthening of economic unity, and the increased military power of previously isolated tribes and communes. The best-known example of synoecism is that of the 12 Attic communes that were united under the authority of Athens (13th-seventh centuries B.C.).
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The prime role of these urban settlements in territorial formation in convincing; but it is curious that processes of synoecism play such a minor part in the current discussion.
Territorial organisation in Iron Age Western and Central Europe by Pare, Chris / Antiquity
He reconstructs a proto-urban passage towards the formation of the city, discarding the more standard versions of a synoecism in which scattered villages joined together to form a single unit.
La Nascita di Roma. Dei, Lari, e Uomini All'Alba di Una Civilta by Fentress, Elizabeth; Guidi, Alessandro / Antiquity
 
 
 
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