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noun - the head of a nome
NOMARCH - Nomarchs (Ancient Egyptian: heri-tep a'a; Greek: , nomarchs) were Ancient Egyptian administration officials responsible for the provinces. Effectivel...
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Egyptian ruler wanting month off |
No time of year suits the governor |
Governor of a province or department in ancient Egypt or modern Greece |
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Aug 14 2016 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
Jul 17 2013 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
Jun 2 2002 The Times - Cryptic |
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The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy. |
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Nomarchs (Ancient Egyptian: heri-tep a'a; Greek: , nomarchs) were Ancient Egyptian administration officials responsible for the provinces. Effectively serving as provincial governors, they each held authority over one of the 42 nomes (Egyptian: sepat, Greek: , nomos) into which the country was divided. Nome is derived from the Greek nomos, meaning a province or district, and nomarch is derived from the Greek title nomarches, the ruler of a nomos.The division of the kingdom into nomes can be documented as far back as the reign of Djoser of the Third Dynasty in the early Old Kingdom, c. 2670 BCE, and probably harks even further back to the Predynastic kingdoms of the Nile valley. The earliest topographical lists of the nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt date back to the reign of Nyuserre Ini, of the mid Fifth Dynasty, from which time the nomarchs no longer lived at royal capital but stayed in their nomes.The power of the nomarchs grew with the reforms of Nyuserre's second successor, Djedkare |