Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the administrative provinces of modern Greece.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A government or department under a nomarch, as in modern Greece; the jurisdiction of a nomarch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
province orterritorial division of akingdom , under the rule of anomarch ; anome .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Modern Greek nomarkhia, from Greek nomarkhiā, district : nomos, district; see nome + -arkhiā, -archy.]
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Examples
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(Leukas), and Ithaca, etc. have formed a nomarchy or province of the kingdom.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Cerigo alone has been incorporated in the continental nomarchy of Messenia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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