Where areas within a region have been grouped artificially, it is possible to calculate the percentage of probability that adjacent areas will be grouped together. This is worked out for four reconstructions of the effect of Cleisthenes' reform in Attica in the late sixth century B.C. Suggestions are made for the application of the method to modern regions.
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