Also in L. form toparchia. [ad. L. toparchia, a. Gr. τοπαρχία, f. τοπάρχης TOPARCH. So mod.F. toparchie.] The small district or territory under the rule of a toparch.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), I. 100. It is diuided into ten gouernments or territories, called Toparchies…: to wit, that of Hiericho…: Emmaus,… Lydda, Ioppica, Accrabatena, Gophnitica, Thamnitica, Betholene, Tephena, and Orine, wherein stood Jerusalem.
1737. Whiston, Josephus, Hist., I. i. § 5. Judas … fled to the toparchy of Gophna.
1848. A. Herbert, in Todd, Irish Nennius, Notes p. lxiii. When the general name is improperly added to ri [king], instead of the name of the toparchy.
1883. Edersheim, Life Jesus, I. 87. Judæa proper, to which Galilee, Samaria, and Peræa were joined as Toparchies. These Toparchies consisted of a group of townships under a Metropolis.
