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Tetrarch vs Ethnarch - What's the difference?

tetrarch | ethnarch |

As nouns the difference between tetrarch and ethnarch

is that tetrarch is a governor of part of a country, especially of a fourth part of a province in Ancient Rome while ethnarch is the governor of a province or people.

tetrarch

English

Noun

(wikipedia tetrarch) (en noun)
  • a governor of part of a country, especially of a fourth part of a province in Ancient Rome
  • an officer in charge of a fourth part of a phalanx in Ancient Greece

    • ethnarch

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, Ancient Greece) The governor of a province or people.
  • * Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur
    • In the course of the struggle with the unfortunate ethnarch , the nobles had found it expedient to attach themselves to Rome.