Definition of "exarchs" [exarchs]

• Plural form of exarch. (noun)

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• "Under the exarchs, the credit and influence of the popes augmented, but even then they had not the smallest degree of civil power."
• "He then adduces two letters of St. Gregory, to show with what modesty he wrote, not only to the kings of France, but to the exarchs of Italy."
• "Eventually, however, it became subject to the exarchs of Ravenna, and remained a Byzantine possession until the eighth century."