anarch

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But the Turks, confident in the strength of their 30,000-man garrison, unwisely permitted these ethnarchs to return.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their priesthood was less to them than the predominance which was based upon it; they looked upon the neighbouring ethnarchs as their equals, and maintained relations of friendship with them.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

At his death, the countries over which he had reigned were divided among his three sons, but they were not allowed to take the title of kings; they were called ethnarchs or tetrarchs.

From A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c. by Unknown

Under the empire many districts were still subjected to the tribal r�gime and commanded by "ethnarchs" or "phylarchs."

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz