dodecarchy
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dodecarchy (countable and uncountable, plural dodecarchies)
- A government of twelve people.
- 1852, Barthold Georg Niebuhr & Marcus von Niebuhr, Lectures on Ancient History, page 105:
- 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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- "dodecarchy, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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