Word: ethnarch
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Behind the ugly heat of radioed words, and the rounding up of youthful Cypriot firebrands, Britain's soldier-diplomat, Sir John Harding, continued negotiations with Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, spiritual shepherd and temporal leader (Ethnarch) of the Greek Cypriots. Begrudgingly, the British found themselves treating him like a head of state...
...most electric word among Cypriots today is enosis (union with Greece). Just how widespread the urge for enosis is among Cypriots is a matter of dispute. The British insist that the agitation is largely the doing of one man, bearded Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, who calls himself the ethnarch, i.e., governor of Cyprus...