Polity’s zealous supporters in antiquity were the prominent ancient Greek philosophers Plato who wrote about it his famous book Politeia (i.e. Polity) and Aristotle who also wrote his famous book Politica (i.e. about Polity), both of them considering Polity as the ideal political system due to the Meritocracy that requires.
During the middle ages the Philochristos ton Romeon Politeia (i.e. the Love /Friend Christ Polity of the Greco-Romans aka the Byzantine Empire) adopted for about 12 centuries this specific political system of Polity until the 1453 Fall of Constantinople and the following Turkish occupation.
When Greece was eventually liberated in 1821 after four centuries of Turkish occupation, the partly revived Greek state initially adopted the same political system of Politeia (Polity) as it’s own one, indicating the succession of the Byzantine Empire.
At the same time the Greek State under the governance of Count Ioannis Kapodistrias adopted the original, genuine, medieval Byzantine Legislation until 1946, when the Swiss’ civil law code written by Count Ioannis Kapodistrias himself was inducted as Greece’s official civil Legislation.
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