See also: Toparch

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From the Ancient Greek τοπάρχης (topárkhēs, ruler of a small district), from τόπος (tópos, place) +‎ -άρχης (-árkhēs, ruler). Compare the Latin toparcha and French toparque.

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toparch (plural toparchs)

  1. The prince or ruler of a small district, city, or petty state; a petty "king".
    • 1640, T[homas] F[uller], “A Comment on 1 Cor. XI. 18, &c.”, in Ioseph’s Partie-colored Coat: Containing, a Comment on Part of the 11. Chapter of the 1. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians: [], London: [] Iohn Dawson, for Iohn Williams, [], →OCLC; republished as William Nichols, editor, Joseph’s Party-coloured Coat: [], London: William Tegg, 1867, →OCLC, page 16:
      [B]y those many kings mentioned in the Old Testament, "thirty and one" in the little land of Canaan, (Joshua xii. 24,) is meant only toparchs, not great kings, but lords of a little dition and dominion; []
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, chapter VIII, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], London: [] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, [], →OCLC, 7th book, page 353:
      Toparks, Kings of Cities or narrow territories, such as were the Kings of Sodome and Gomorrah, the Kings of Jericho and Ai.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, “6ª Century”, in The Church-history of Britain; [], London: [] Iohn Williams [], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), pages 116–117:
      About the same time [] flourished Cadocus, abbot of Llancarvan in Glamorganshire, son of the prince and toparch of that country.
    • 1737, Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston, Antiquities of the Jews, book XI, chapter iii, § 2:
      The toparchs of India and Ethiopia.
    • 1852, Charlotte Mary Yonge, chapter XXII, in Cameos from English History, volume I, published 1877, page 162:
      The top-arch, Turlogh O’Connor, was the friend of O’Rourke.

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  • NED X, part i (Ti–U; 1st ed., 1926), § 1 (Ti–Tz), page 149/1, “Toparch

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