100 days of Nicknames! #2 DEMETRIUS

Day 2,578, 00:05 Published in Greece Greece by THRAX and RUMELIAN
Demetrius!

Latin form of the Demetrios, which was derived from the name of the goddess Demetra (Dimitra, from dio "two" + mitra "uterus", the two uterus goddess).



Kings of Macedonia and the Macedonian Seleucid and Vactrian kingdoms have had this name.



The most famus of them, Demetrios I of Macedon (ruled 309-301 BC) was known as ‘Poliorketes’ (the ‘Beseiger’).



This is the #2 of about 100 days series of articles dadicated to (and not only) erepublik nicknames!

Until now:

1 AEROPOS