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toparchy|ˈtɒpəkɪ| Also in L. form toparchia. [ad. L. toparchia, a. Gr. τοπαρχία, f. τοπάρχης toparch. So mod.F. toparchie.] The small district or territory under the rule of a toparch.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) I. 100 It is diuided into ten gouernments or territories, called Toparchies..: to wit, that of Hiericho..: Emmaus,..Lydda, Ioppica, Accrabatena, Gophnitica, Thamnitica, Betholene, Tephena, and Orine, wherein stood Jerusalem. 1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. i. i. §5 Judas..fled to the toparchy of Gophna. 1848A. Herbert in Todd Irish Nennius Notes p. lxiii, When the general name is improperly added to ri [king], instead of the name of the toparchy. 1883A. Edersheim Life Jesus I. 87 Judæa proper, to which Galilee, Samaria, and Peræa were joined as Toparchies. These Toparchies consisted of a group of townships under a Metropolis. |