Paroikoi (plural of Greek πάροικος, paroikos, the etymological origin of parish and parochial) is the term that replaced "metic" in the Hellenistic and...

income stream in question (for instance, farmers on the land) were called paroikoi in the documents. The word pronoia could refer to the grant itself (land...

free people (non-citizens) living on the territory of a polis were called paroikoi (see etymology of parish), and in Asia Minor katoikoi. In French, métèque...

Even at its height, slaves only ever made up 2% of the population. The paroikoi were the Byzantine equivalent of serfs. Serfdom in France started to diminish...

mentioned in ca. 1307, in a legal dispute between some of his tenants (paroikoi) near Smyrna with a local monastery. Some authors identify him with a "Doukas...

(paroikos) was weakened once tenures held by paroikoi were considered hereditary, and once some paroikoi achieved owner status. From the 10th century...

estates, which were worked by dependent sebri, the equivalent of Greek paroikoi: peasants owing labour services, formally bound by decree. The earlier...

majority of the population in the rural areas, where they were either serfs (paroikoi) or free tenants (francomati). The population increased until the middle...

on the Byzantine government's confiscation of some of the property and Paroikoi (serfs) of the Iveron Monastery of Mount Athos, which the monastery viewed...

all by being his earthly presence. The people in turn were the monarch's paroikoi (subjects). He was the sole administrator and lawgiver of the holy Basileia...