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nom⋅ar⋅chy

  [nom-ahr-kee]
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–noun, plural -chies.
one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
Origin:
1650–60; < Gk nomarchía rule of a province. See nomarch, -y 3
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nom·ar·chy   (nŏm'är'kē)   
n.   pl. nom·ar·chies
Any of the administrative provinces of the modern Greek state.

[Modern Greek nomarkhia, from Greek nomarkhiā, district : nomos, district; see nome + -arkhiā, -archy.]
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