Colonus (other)

	Colonus (other) Colonus may refer to: * Colonus (person), a tenant farmer from the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages * ''Colonus'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders * Kolonos, a modern neighborhood in Athens * Colonus (Attica) (also Hippeios Colonus, Colonus Hippius, Hippius Colonus), an ancient-Greece deme near Athens * Agoraios Kolonos, a hill near the Temple of Hephaestus * Kolonos Hill Kolonos Hill (; el, Λόφος Κολωνού) is a hill in Central Greece. It is located in the narrow coastal passage known as Thermopylae, and is near the city of Lamia. History The hill is best known as the site of the final stand of the ... , a hill in Central Greece {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Colonus (person) In the late Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages a ''colonus'' (plural: ''coloni'') was a tenant farmer. Known collectively as the "colonate", these farmers operated as sharecroppers, paying landowners with a portion of their crops in exchange for use of their farmlands. The ''colonis tenant-landlord relationship eventually degraded into one of debt and dependence. As a result, the ''colonus'' system became a new type of land tenancy, placing the occupants in a state between freedom and slavery. The ''colonus'' system can be considered a predecessor of European feudal serfdom. History In Italy, much of the agricultural land was leased to tenants. There was a concept in place that allowed the tenants to have tenure on the land, even though they were not the owners. Tax liabilities went with the sales of a land plot, but most of the taxed public land in Italy was leased rather than owned. Therefore, many of the taxes were imposed upon the tenants rather than the land owner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Colonus (spider) ''Colonus'' is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae. ''Colonus'' species are endemic to North and South America, ranging from New York to Argentina. All members of the genus have two pairs of bulbous spines on the ventral side of the first tibiae. The function of these spines is unknown. ''Colonus'' was declared a junior synonym of '' Thiodina'' by Eugène Simon in 1903, but this was reversed by Bustamante, Maddison, and Ruiz in 2015. Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted 14 species of ''Colonus'': * '' Colonus branicki'' (Taczanowski, 1871) – Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana * '' Colonus candidus'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil * '' Colonus germaini'' (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Argentina * '' Colonus hesperus'' (Richman & Vetter, 2004) – United States, Mexico * '' Colonus melanogaster'' (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil * '' Colonus pallidus'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Colombia to Argentina * '' Colonus pseustes'' (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kolonos Kolonos (, ) is a densely populated working-class district of the Municipality of Athens. It is named after the ancient deme, Hippeios Colonus. The district hosts a multi-year football club, Attikos F.C., that was founded in 1919. History Kolonos is the site of ancient Colonus, a deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and ear ... of ancient Attica. References {{Athens Neighbourhoods in Athens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Colonus (Attica) Colonus or Kolonos ( grc, Κολωνός, ) was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme of Sophocles, and the scene of one of the poet's tragedies, was situated ten stadia from the gate of the city, called Dipylum, near Plato's Academy and the river Cephissus. It derived its name from two small but conspicuous heights, which rise from the plain a little to the north of the Academy. Hence it is called by Sophocles "the white Colonus". It was under the especial care of Poseidon, and is called by Thucydides the ἱερόν of this god. It is frequently called Colonus Hippius or Kolonos Hippeios (Κολωνός Ἵππειος) or Hippius Colonus or Hippeios Kolonos (Ἵππειος Κολωνός), both meaning "Colonus of the Horses", to distinguish it from the "Colonus Agoraeus" in Athens. Besides the temple of Poseidon, it possessed a sacred grove of the Eumenides, altars of Athena Hippia, Demeter, Zeus, and Prometheus, together with sanctuaries of Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Agoraios Kolonos Agoraios Kolonos (; grc, Κολωνός Ἀγοραῖος; ell, Αγοραίος Κολωνός, meaning "the hill next to the Agora"), located to the south and adjacently situated on a hill near the Temple of Hephaestus, used to be the meeting place of the ancient Athenian craftsmen.plato-dialogues.org URL accessed on June 2, 2008. See also * Ancient Agora of Athens The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill kn ... References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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