Phyle
Phyle
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There are things that have the name <b>Phyle</b> (<a href="Greek language">Greek</a> <b>&#966;&#965;&#955;&#942;</b>, <i>clan, race, people</i>, derived from ancient Greek <i>phyestai - to descend, to originate</i>):<ul><li><i>Phyle</i> is a ethnological and sociological term for a tribe, particularly in ancient Greece (see also <a href="Phratry">Phratry</a>) <ul> <li>derived from this, an ancient name of <a href="Fyli">Fyli</a> </ul> <li>A sociological analog of a biological <a href="Phylum">phyla</a>, mentioned in a <a href="Novel">Novel</a> <a href="The Diamond Age">The Diamond Age</a> by <a href="Neal Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a> which includes three great tribes. </ul>