Katoks
As Katöken ( gr. Katoikia = colony , settlement is called) in Hellenistic kingdoms those military settlers, which the corresponding royal power manifested and the Hellenization in Asia Minor ahead exaggerated. As a rule, they stood out from the other settlers in that they had a more privileged tax bracket .
As early as 312 BC After the Battle of Gaza, the first Ptolemies settled several thousand prisoners of war in Egypt . These were distributed to the individual Gaue , equipped with land and thus formed a reserve army that could be called to arms at any time by the ruler's call. Their land ownership was inheritable. From 200 BC They were generally referred to as Katoks to distinguish them from the "native" clergy . The rulers of Egypt could always rely on the Katoks . Among them, the Macedonians were valued the most. However, there were also members of other peoples, such as Jews and Persians , among them .
In the Seleucid Empire and other Hellenistic forms of government, the village military settlement is accordingly called Katökie .
literature
- J. Klass: Naubion Abgabe von Katöken- and Lehnsland in Tebtynis , in: Aegyptus 28, 1948, pp. 100-110
- M. Rostovtzeff : Social and economic history of the Hellenistic world , 1955
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Individual evidence
- ^ Bengtson, Hermann: The Hellenistic World Culture, F. Steiner Verlag: Wiesbaden 1988, p. 121.