Exarchate

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The province or area of an exarch. historical

    "Exarchate of Africa"

  2. 2
    a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church wordnet

Synonyms

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eparchyeparchy

Example

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"Astolphus peremptorily refused to listen to the remonstrances of Pepin, who called upon him to evacuate the towns in the exarchate of Ravenna, and to leave the Pope unmolested in the environs of Rome as well as in Rome itself."

Etymology

From exarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).

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