Dodecarchy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A government of twelve people. countable, uncountable

    "And this dodecarchy may have lasted much longer than is stated by Herodotus; the immense labyrinth on Lake Moeris, the building of which is ascribed to it, is a proof of this, or else we must deny that it was erected during the dodecarchy."

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government

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"And this dodecarchy may have lasted much longer than is stated by Herodotus; the immense labyrinth on Lake Moeris, the building of which is ascribed to it, is a proof of this, or else we must deny that it was erected during the dodecarchy."

Etymology

From dodec- + -archy, after the pattern of heptarchy, etc.

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