In ancient Greece, a phratry (Ancient Greek: φρᾱτρῐ́ᾱ, romanized: phrātríā, lit. 'brotherhood, kinfolk', derived from Ancient Greek: φρᾱ́τηρ, romanized: phrā́tēr...

India, especially the state of Tamil Nadu. They are Hindus and follow Phratry system. They mostly reside in hill regions and do various occupations such...

upon common female ancestors. Clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign: Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf. They first...

descent, most notably in Bradford. Caste system among South Asian Muslims Phratry, an institution of Ancient Greece similar in meaning and etymology. Hamid...

citizenship; prior to that time, citizenship had been based on membership in a phratry, or family group. At this same time, demes were established in the main...

the Thessalian festival of Peloria. Phratrios (Φράτριος), as patron of a phratry Philios (Φιλιος; "of Friendship") or Latinized Philius Phyxios (Φυξιος;...

Navajo also had a system of matrilineal "clans" organized further into phratries (perhaps influenced by the western Pueblo). The notion of a tribe within...

several cities Poseidon was worshipped in relation to the genealogy and the phratry. At Tinos he was worshipped as a healer-god, probably a forerunner of the...

Acropolis. At Athens there is the temple of Athena Phratria, as patron of a phratry, in the Ancient Agora of Athens. Athena's epithet Pallas – her most renowned...

a stele, written on all four sides, which seems to have regulated the phratry of the Labyadai. In 1893, slightly after the beginning of the great Excavations...