Public square or part of the public market where citizens and philosophers gathered in the ancient Greece to discuss issues. It was also the name of an ancient city in Greece in the Thracian Chersonesus (Peninsula Thrace, continental island).
The Greek term is agora agoras, meeting, Assembly, gathered community, speech to the Assembly, square and public market, goods, public sale. This comes from ageiro, gather, collect, make provision, and also ask, beg.