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EOTVOS - LoveToKnow Article on EOTVOS |
 | | The term survives as one of the administrative units of modern Greece, the country being divided into nomarchies, subdivided into eparchies, again sub-divided into demarchies (see GREECE: Local Administration). |
| | Eparch and eparchy are also used in the Russian Orthodox Church for a bishop and his diocese respectively,EPAULETTE (a French word, from paule, a shoulder), properly a shoulder-piece, and so applied to the shoulder-knot ofribbon to which a scapulary was attached, worn by members of areligious order. |
| | The military usage was probably derived fromthe metal plate (pauliire) which protected the shoulder in the defensive armour of the 16th century. |
| 65.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EO/EOTVOS.htm (2487 words) |
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