The word 'democracy' was derived from which language?

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The word "Democracy" is derived from two greek words "Demos" and "Kratia". Here "Demos" means "people" and "Kratia" means "to rule". Thus the word democracy means rule of the people. At first democratic system was approached by the city states of Athens.

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