Athenian cleruchia

[Hemachandra]

In accordance with the book description of Athens of the Attic period (500-323 BC) already had such a phenomenon as “cleruchia”.

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The Athenian felt a natural, healthy attraction to his native Demeter, and his government tried in every possible way to preserve the country's peasant population; but the most careful irrigation and terracing could not increase the area of fertile land as much as would correspond to population growth. Victorious wars gave the government the opportunity to strengthen the peasant element through a special kind of resettlement system - the so-called cleruchia. Part of the land was taken from the defeated state, and this was divided into plots (kleroi), which were distributed to the poor citizens. The cleruchy differed from the colony in that its members retained their Athenian citizenship, voted in the Athenian council and held Athenian positions on an equal basis with other citizens, while the colony was an independent political body with its own council and magistracy. So they were assigned to cleruchies one after another others: Thracian Chersonese, Lemnos, Imbros, a good part of Euboea, etc.

I suggest that the developers consider adding a cleruchy building to the Athenians.

As for the cleruchia of Sparta, you should clarify this in more advanced books.

Edited October 23, 2023 by Hemachandra

[Gurken Khan]

Ptolemies and Seleucids have a Klerouchia (military colony); I guess it's a matter of balancing. The wikipedia entry contradicts many points from your posted description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleruchy

[Hemachandra]

20 hours ago, Gurken Khan said:

Ptolemies and Seleucids have a Klerouchia (military colony); I guess it's a matter of balancing. The wikipedia entry contradicts many points from your posted description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleruchy

I probably can’t read English, but it clearly says that cleruchia is an Athenian feature first and foremost. As for balancing, why don't you play around with this by setting the city center limit to 1 of 1, after which the Athenians will build their cleruchias instead of city centers? But with a set of units typical for an urban center.