What is the world's oldest continuous democracy?
The word “democracy” is the English form of an originally ancient Greek coinage, a compound of demos (meaning people or masses) and kratos (power). The oldest democracy, literally speaking, was that of the fifth-century BC Athenians in ancient Greece.
However, claims are made that weaker forms and types of something vaguely democratic, at least in terms of public discussion, were around earlier than that -
