Chora (central place)
Chora ( neugr. Χώρα chōra ( f. Sg. )) Is a colloquial term in Greece , especially on the Greek islands , for the central location of a (predominantly) agricultural region . In everyday language it is often used instead of the place name. The general meaning of the word is 'land' 'area'.
The ports of the mostly high altitude Chora are very often called Skala (Greek Σκάλα skala , “stairs”, “landing place”; from Latin scala ).
Antiquity
Archaeologists and historians, on the other hand , use the term Chora to refer to the economically used area around the ancient Greek city-states, especially the ancient and late ancient times , the Pole .
In this sense, a distinction is made between their capital Alexandria and the Egyptian Chora - the rest of rural Egypt - for the time of the Ptolemies (approx. 4th – 1st century BC ) .
See also
literature
- Frank Kolb (Ed.): Chora and Polis. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-486-56730-4 ( full text as PDF ).