heptarchy
Kelime Anlamı :

1. yedi krallık.
2. yedi kişilik hükümet.
Tanımlar :
1. government by seven persons.
2. A state governed by seven persons.
3. the informal confederation of the anglo-saxon kingdoms from the fifth to the ninth century, consisting of kent, sussex, Wessex, Essex, northumbria, east anglia, and Mercia.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. government by seven people
2. A state governed by seven people, or an association of seven states (as in anglo-saxon britain)
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A government by seven persons; also, a group of seven kingdoms or governments: in the latter sense used only in english history, of the seven principal anglo-saxon kingdoms of kent, sussex, Wessex, Essex, northumbria, east anglia, and Mercia.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia