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English
Etymology
From Latin toparchia, from Ancient Greek τοπαρχία (toparkhía), from τόπος (tópos, “place”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɒpɑː(ɹ)ki/, /ˈtɒpə(ɹ)ki/
Noun
toparchy (plural toparchies)
- A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch.
Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Roger Daniel for John Williams, , →OCLC:confining the monarchy of Christ in the Gospel unto their own toparchy, and having a quarrel to the words in the Creed