ethnarch
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- ethnarchy noun
Etymology
Origin of ethnarch
From the Greek word ethnárchēs, dating back to 1635–45. See ethno-, -arch
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Example Sentences
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The British insist that the agitation is largely the doing of one man, bearded Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, who calls himself the ethnarch, i.e., governor of Cyprus.
From Time Magazine Archive
At almost the same time, Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot flew to Athens to talk privately with bearded Archbishop Makarios, the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus.
From Time Magazine Archive
For political and spiritual guidance they relied on black-bearded Archbishop Makarios, head of Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Church and ethnarch of Cyprus' Greeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Archbishop Makarios III, born Michael Mouskos, became ethnarch in 1950, armed with a church-run plebiscite that showed 97% of all Greek Cypriots in favor of enosis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Archelaus, the Herodian ethnarch, is deposed; Judea becomes a district of the Roman prefecture of Syria.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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