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

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

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