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  Nomos (plural: Nomoi) can refer to:

  • the subdivisions of Ancient Egypt
    Ancient Egypt

    Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
    , see Nome (Egypt)
    Nome (Egypt)

    A nome was a subnational administrative division of ancient Egypt. Today's use of the Greek nome rather than the Egyptian language term sepat came about during the Ptolemaic Egypt period....
  • the prefectures of Greece
    Prefectures of Greece

    Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 3 Super-prefectures of Greece and 54 prefectures or nomes ....
    , the administrative division immediately below the peripheries
    Peripheries of Greece

    The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
     of Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
     (nomoí)
  • law
    LAW

    LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
     (nómoi). It is the origin of the suffix -onomy, as in astronomy, economy, or taxonomy. See also Biblical law in Christianity
    Biblical law in Christianity

    Biblical law in Christianity generally refers to a discussion of the applicability of Biblical law in a Christianity. This is also referred to as God's Law or Divine Law....
  • the spirit of law
    Nomos (mythology)

    In Greek mythology, Nomos is the Daemon of laws, statutes, and ordinances.External links* in Greek mythology
  • meaningful orders or worldviews of individuals
    Nomos (Sociology)

    In sociology, a nomos is a socially constructed ordering of experience. The term derives from the Greek ?????, and it refers, not only to explicit laws, but to all of the normal rules and forms which people take for granted in their day to day activities....
    , in Peter L. Berger's
    Peter L. Berger

    Peter Ludwig Berger is an American sociology and Lutheran theology well known for his work The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge , which he co-authored with Thomas Luckmann....
     sociology
    Sociology

    Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
     of religion
    Religion

    A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
  • "Nomos", a game supposedly in development by Coded Illusions
    Coded Illusions

    Coded Illusions is a video game developer based in The Netherlands, founded in August 2005, after a two-year as a hobby project.Products...


The nouns nómos and nomós both derive from the verb , to dispense or to allot, with nomós being the result of allotment and nómos being the manner of allotment or dispensing (justice).

Publications

  • Nomos: Studies in Spontaneous Order a magazine published in the 1980s and 1990s, connected with the libertarian movement.
  • Nomos Publishers (, ).
  • NOMOS: Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy

    The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, or ASPLP, is a learned society founded in 1955 by political theorist Carl Friedrich....
     (, ).


Companies

  • Best Nomos, an American Radiation Oncology company
  • Nomos AG, a numismatic firm based in Zürich, Switzerland
  • NOMOS-BANK
    NOMOS-BANK

    OJSC NOMOS-BANK is one of Russia's largest Privately held company banks. It has 21 Branch_es and 31 representative offices in Russia. It was co-founded by Igor Finogenov, now CEO of the Eurasian Development Bank....
    , a Russian bank
  • NOMOS Glashütte/SA, a German watch maker
  • Nomos-Uhr-Gesellschaft, Guido Müller & Co., a German watch company from 1906-1910