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Definition of Toparch
1. n. The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.
Definition of Toparch
1. Noun. The ruler of a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toparch
1. a ruler of a district [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toparch
Literary usage of Toparch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus by Ptolemy, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, John Pentland Mahaffy (1896)
"But it is hardly credible that the toparch should have thus usurped the title of
the nomarch ; moreover, if the writer of ..."
2. History of the Church of England from the Abolition of the Roman by Richard Watson Dixon (1881)
"The Pope provided another person, who was supported by the toparch : and ...
his protector the toparch, obtained the royal assent to hold the bishopric. ..."
3. The Hibeh Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Eric Gardner Turner (1906)
"9-10 is called the toparch of the lower ... combined the two offices of nomarch
and toparch, or, what is the more natural inference, that he was first one ..."
4. Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of the Gospels by Frederic Huidekoper (1879)
"7 These dates must be a later addition, probably as late as the fourth or fifth
century. s The introduction, into the heading, of Nicodemus, a Roman toparch ..."
5. A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and by John Platts (1825)
"The copy of the letter, which was written by Abgarus the toparch to Jesus, ...
Abgarus, toparch of Edessa, to Jesus the good Saviour, who has appeared at ..."
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