toparchy

English

Etymology

From Latin toparchia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek.

Noun

toparchy (plural toparchies)

1. A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch.

   Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “toparchy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)