Definition of Toparchy. Meaning of Toparchy. Synonyms of Toparchy

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Definition of Toparchy

Toparchy
Toparchy To"parch*y, n.; pl. Toparchies. [L. toparchia, Gr. ?. See Toparch.] A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. --Fuller.

Meaning of Toparchy from wikipedia

- nomarchēs for the nomos and the komarchēs for each komē. In an account, the toparchies constituted the hyparchies such as Gaulanitis, Galilea, Samaria, Judea...
- 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...
- was no longer a toparchy in its own right following the First Jewish-Roman War and had instead become a village inside the toparchy of Jericho. Ein Gedi...
- 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...
- Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) book 3, section 48, places a toparchy called Acrabbene at the border between Samaria and Judea, as the southernmost...
- village that is in the great plain called Ginea, and ends at the Acrabbene toparchy, and is entirely of the same nature with Judea; for both countries are...
- and setting the city ablaze. He also sent a cavalry force to ravage the toparchy of Narbata, near Caesarea. In the Galilee, the Romans were warmly received...
- and the royal possessions in the plain of Esdraelon, (e) the Samaritan toparchies ..., (f) the five non-Jewish cities in the northern Transjordanian region...
- prospered, ac****ulating extensive territory, including the former Judean toparchy of Acraba. Insofar as the hilly topography of the site would allow, the...