- the
governor of a district. Such
districts were then
called "
toparchies" (sing.
toparchy, from Gr**** τοπαρχία, toparchia). In the 6th century, in the...
-
other cities that were
inferior to it, they
presided over
their several toparchies;
Gophna was the
second of
those cities, and next to that Acrabatta, after...
- east of the
Jordan River; and Herod's
sister Salome I, who was
given a
toparchy including the
cities of Jabneh, Ashdod, and
Fasayil (Phasaelis). Herod...
- Costobarus,
governor of Idumea. She was a
nominal queen regnant of the
toparchy of Iamnia, Azotus,
Phasaelis from 4 BCE. She
first married Joseph I (uncle...
- there. In the time of Jesus,
Iudaea of the
Romans was
divided into the
toparchies of Judea, Samaria,
Galilee and the Paralia.
Samaria occupied the centre...
- and the
royal possessions in the
plain of Esdraelon, (e) the
Samaritan toparchies ..., (f) the five non-Jewish
cities in the
northern Transjordanian region...
- name. In the 25th year of his reign, he
partitioned the
kingdom into
Toparchies, Tetrarchies, and Governments, and
brought colonies from
diverse parts...
- starvation. In late June 69,
Vespasian moved southeast to
subdue the
toparchies of
Gophna and Acrabetta,
before capturing the
cities of
Bethel and Ephraim...
- him in his
office of high priest, but gave to him the
three Samaritan toparchies of
Mount Ephraim, Lod, and Ramathaim-Zophim. In
consideration of a present...
- prospered, ac****ulating
extensive territory,
including the
former Judean toparchy of Acraba.
Insofar as the
hilly topography of the site
would allow, the...
