Phyle is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. Members of the same phyle were known as symphyletai meaning 'fellow tribesmen'. During the late 6th century BC, Cleisthenes organized the population o
Attica after Cleisthenes' reforms with the ten "tribes", thirty "trittyes", and the demes.
Asty was the physical space of a city or town in Ancient Greece, especially as opposed to the political concept of a polis, which encompassed the entire territory and citizen body of a city-state.
The division of Attica into urban (pink), inland (green), and coastal (blue) zones by Cleisthenes