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Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsía "assembly (of citizens in a city-state)"

ecclesia noun

assembly

A Greek word for a regularly convoked assembly; chiefly applied to the general assembly of Athenian citizens. [OED]
The assembly of the whole male citizen body which gave its decisive vote on policies put before it by the Boule or Council at Athens and elsewhere. Later the term came to mean the Christian church. [Oxford Reference]

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"Ecclesia, (“gathering of those summoned”), in ancient Greece, assembly of citizens in a city-state. Its roots lay in the Homeric agora, the meeting of the people. The Athenian Ecclesia, for which exists the most detailed record, was already functioning in Draco’s day (c. 621 bc)."

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