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thalassocracy
[ thal-uh-sok-ruh-see ]
noun
plural thalassocracies.
- dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
thalassocracy
/ ˌθæ±ôəˈ²õÉ’°ì°ùÉ™²õɪ /
noun
- the government of a nation having dominion over large expanses of the seas
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of thalassocracy1
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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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