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thalassocracy

[ thal-uh-sok-ruh-see ]

noun

plural thalassocracies.
  1. dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.


thalassocracy

/ ˌθæ±ôəˈ²õÉ’°ì°ùÉ™²õɪ /

noun

  1. the government of a nation having dominion over large expanses of the seas
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of thalassocracy1

First recorded in 1840–50; thalasso- + -cracy
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of thalassocracy1

C19: from Attic Greek thalassocratia, from thalassa sea + -cracy
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The mercantile Free Cities of Essos each fall somewhere on the spectrum of oligarchy/plutocracy/timocracy/thalassocracy.

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Then one day he came upon the ruins of another thalassocracy�a Venetian doge's palace.

At the same time he was reported to have been the first monarch who established a naval power, and acquired what was termed by the Greeks the Thalassocracy, or dominion of the sea.

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