anoikism

Noun

 * 1) The splitting up of a town into smaller units
 * As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it.
 * 1) * 1918, Allen Brown West, The History of the Chalcidic League, Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, page 25
 * In one respect conditions were more favorable for the synoikism of Megalopolis than for the anoikism at Olynthos.