Isopolitics
Isopolitics ( ancient Greek ἰσοπολιτεία isopoliteía , “equal citizenship”) denoted in ancient Greece since the 3rd century BC. The granting of citizenship by a Greek polis , a state, to individuals or entire communities of another polis. It was about a mutual, contractually agreed exchange of rights of the citizens of independent states, in contrast to the sympolitie , in which the civil rights of the entire state were acquired when two or more states merged.
The mutual granting of full civil rights, which was contractually regulated between two Poleis, concerned the citizens of the contractual partner who wanted to become citizens of the twin city and was understood as an individually perceptible legal title. However, citizens of a polis who did not want to activate their potential citizenship in the twin city were also given certain privileges there. Isopoly agreements were concluded between neighboring cities as well as widely separated poles. Conditions for activating the civil rights of the isopolitans in the twin city were membership in a phyle of the hometown, leaving the latter and settling in the twin city, as well as the order of all financial and legal affairs in the home polis.
An example of the mutual granting of civil rights is the border, isopolitical and alliance treaty between the Aitolian and Akarnanian federations .
literature
- Peter J. Rhodes: Isopoliteia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , Sp. 1143 f.
- Angelos Chaniotis: The Treaties between Cretan Poleis in the Hellenistic Period . Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-515-06827-7 , Isopolitie, Sympolitie, Aussengemeinden, p. 101-104 ( excerpt [accessed April 1, 2018]).
Remarks
- ↑ contract text ; to the contract Oliver Dany: Akarnanien im Hellenism. History and international law in north-west Greece (= Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history. Issue 89). CH Beck, Munich 1999, pp. 69-86.