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

top quarks
top round
top scorer
top secret
top seed
top sheet
top side
top spot
top tier
top tiers
top totty
top up
topagnosis
topalgia
toparch (current term)
toparchies
toparchs
toparchy
topau
topaz
topazes
topazine
topazlike
topazolite
topazolites
topbar
topbars
topboot
topboots

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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