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Definition of Ethnarch
1. Noun. The ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority. "The election of Makarios III to archbishop gave him the status of the ethnarch of Cyprus"
Definition of Ethnarch
1. n. The governor of a province or people.
Definition of Ethnarch
1. Noun. (historical Ancient Greece) The governor of a province or people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ethnarch
1. the ruler of a people or province [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethnarch
Literary usage of Ethnarch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"But a later decree of Ca>sar made Hyrcanus ethnarch and high priest, the former
title as compensation for the loss of the royal name. ..."
2. Ordo Sæclorum: A Treatise on the Chronology of the Holy Scriptures: and the by Henry Browne (1844)
"gratuitously invents a difficulty when he argues, that " if Damascus at that time
belonged to the Roman province, the Arabian ethnarch would not have dared ..."
3. Post-Biblical History of the Jews: From the Close of the Old Testament by Morris Jacob Raphall (1856)
"... Augustus— Division of Herod's territories—Archelaus ethnarch of Judea—Popular
discontent—The pseudo-Alexander detected by Augustus—Archelaus, accused, ..."
4. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"The purpose of such an appointment was perhaps primarily to safeguard the religion
of a people. The earliest instance of an ethnarch known to us is that of ..."
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