Nomarch
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Nomarchs were the semi-feudal rulers of Ancient Egypt
ian provinces. Serving as provincial governors, they each held authority over one of the 42 nomes
(Egyptian
: sepat) into which the country was divided. Both nome and nomarch are terms derived from the Greek nomos, meaning a province or district. The nomarchs exercised considerable power.
The division of the kingdom into nomes can be documented as far back as the Old Kingdom
(in the 3rd millennium BCE) and continued even up until the Roman
period.
Nomarchis is the modern Greek title for prefect, who rules the nomos
(prefecture; nomarchia, his governance).
Nomarchs are people that lived in ancient Egypt. They were respected throughout the community. Nomarchs collected the taxes from the people that lived in ancient Egypt.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
ian provinces. Serving as provincial governors, they each held authority over one of the 42 nomes
Nome (Egypt)
A nome was a subnational administrative division of ancient Egypt. Today's use of the Greek nome rather than the Egyptian term sepat came about during the Ptolemaic period. Fascinated with Egypt, Greeks created many historical records about the country...
(Egyptian
Egyptian language
Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...
: sepat) into which the country was divided. Both nome and nomarch are terms derived from the Greek nomos, meaning a province or district. The nomarchs exercised considerable power.
The division of the kingdom into nomes can be documented as far back as the Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley .The term itself was...
(in the 3rd millennium BCE) and continued even up until the Roman
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
period.
Nomarchis is the modern Greek title for prefect, who rules the nomos
Prefectures of Greece
During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...
(prefecture; nomarchia, his governance).
Nomarchs are people that lived in ancient Egypt. They were respected throughout the community. Nomarchs collected the taxes from the people that lived in ancient Egypt.