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nome
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Encyclopedic overview
A nome (/noʊm/; from Ancient Greek: νομός, nomós, "district") was a territorial division in ancient Egypt.
Each nome was ruled by a nomarch (Ancient Egyptian: ḥrj tp ꜥꜣ, "Great Chief"). The number of nomes changed through the various periods of the history of ancient Egypt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nome” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.