noun
- plural of heptarchy; governments by seven rulers or seven kingdoms
Usage: historical
Examples
- The Anglo-Saxon heptarchies dominated early medieval England.
- Ancient Greece was sometimes divided into various heptarchies.
- Historians debate the exact boundaries of these early heptarchies.
- The concept of heptarchies appears in several classical texts.
- Political theorists have studied the stability of heptarchies throughout history.