# Nomos

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**Nomos**, from Ancient Greek: νόμος, is the body of law governing human behavior.

**Nomos** or **Nomoi** may refer to:

- [Nomos (mythology)](/source/Nomos_(mythology)), 'the spirit of law' in Greek mythology
- [Nomos (sociology)](/source/Nomos_(sociology)), a habit or custom of social and political behavior, originally used by Carl Schmitt
- [Nomos (music)](/source/Nomos_(music)), a genre of Ancient Greek music
- [Nomos (band)](/source/Nomos_(band)), traditional Irish music band of the 1990s
- *Nomos*, a publication of the [American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy](/source/American_Society_for_Political_and_Legal_Philosophy)
- [Nomos Publishing House](/source/Nomos_Publishing_House)
- [Nomoi Islands](/source/Nomoi_Islands), group of atolls in the Federated States of Micronesia

## Companies

- [NOMOS-BANK](/source/NOMOS-BANK), a Russian bank
- [Nomos Glashütte](/source/Nomos_Glash%C3%BCtte), a German watchmaking company

## See also

- [Nome (disambiguation)](/source/Nome_(disambiguation))
- [Namus (disambiguation)](/source/Namus_(disambiguation))
- [Nome (Egypt)](/source/Nome_(Egypt)) (Ancient Greek *nomós*), subdivisions of Ancient Egypt
- [Prefectures of Greece](/source/Prefectures_of_Greece) (modern Greek *nomós*), former administrative subdivisions
- [*Laws* (dialogue)](/source/Laws_(dialogue)) (Ancient Greek *Nómoi*), a dialogue by Plato

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