Demogerontia

Why may not the national spirit of Greece be as well preserved by her Demogerontias, as England had hers by her hundreds?

But the Cabinets of the Continent were not then disposed to protect institutions that contained a principle of self-government, and the British Government, as a member of the protective alliance, became a consenting party to the suppression of those native institutions, called demogerontias, which had given the Greeks something of an organized commissariat during the revolutionary war.

This Council was called Demogerontia (municipality) and was composed of twelve members named municipal councillors, of one treasurer, and of the president of the Council, called Demogeron (mayor).