Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The government or jurisdiction of an ethnarch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule.
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- noun A population and area of land governed by a single ruler, called an
ethnarch , and in which the population is of homogenous ethnicity and the political unit is of insufficient size to be considered a kingdom or nation.
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Examples
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The Grand Vizier, whom the Sultan appointed to govern Cyprus, found it convenient to recognize the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus, and to give to the ethnarchy, the governing body of the Church, a certain measure of support and authority.
The Cyprus Question 1958
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Egyptian Jews recommended him to Caesar's favor, and secured for him an extension of his authority in Palestine, and for Hyrcanus the confirmation of his ethnarchy.
Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927
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His timely help and his influence over the Egyptian Jews recommended him to Caesar's favor, and secured for him an extension of his authority in Palestine, and for Hyrcanus the confirmation of his ethnarchy.
Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914
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The high-priesthood, i.e., the ethnarchy, was the goal of his ambition.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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In grateful recognition of his services the high-priesthood and the ethnarchy were bestowed upon him as hereditary possessions by a solemn assembly of the people, "until a trustworthy prophet should arise."
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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And now Archelaus took possession of his ethnarchy, and used not the
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709
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Caesar did moreover bestow upon her the royal palace of Ascalon; by all which she got together a revenue of sixty talents; but he put her house under the ethnarchy of Archelaus.
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709
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When Archelaus was entered on his ethnarchy, and was come into Judea, he accused Joazar, the son of Boethus, of assisting the seditious, and took away the high priesthood from him, and put Eleazar his brother in his place.
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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And now as the ethnarchy of Archelaus was fallen into a Roman province, the other sons of Herod, Philip, and that Herod who was called
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709
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Lack of a truly Orthodox theology of the Church that transcends narrow ethnicity, political ethnarchy and Old World politics (e.g., respectively, the Serbian / Romanian / Ukrainian / etc. jurisdictions; the Ecumenical Patriarchate yearning to rule its Greek led millet of all Orthodox Christians; increasingly, the Russian Church).
orrologion 2008
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