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EPARCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 666 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPARCH  , an

official, a governor of a province of
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Roman
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Greece, iirapxos, whose title was
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equivalent to, or represented that of the Roman praefectus . The
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area of his administration was called an eparchy (i rapXLa) . The
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term survives as one of the administrative units of
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modern Greece, the country being divided into nomarchies, subdivided into eparchies, again sub-divided into demarchies (see GREECE:
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Local Administration) .

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