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TOPARCHY.—A compound word from Greek topos (place) and archç (rule), found only in 1Ma_11:28 (cf. 1Ma_10:30; 1Ma_10:38; 1Ma_10:11-34) among the sacred books, but very many times in the papyri of Egypt (with reference to that country). It means a very small administrative division of territory. Three toparchies were detached from Samaria and added to Judæa in Maccabæan times.
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