Examples of nomarchs in the following topics:
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- During the First Intermediate Period, the governors of the nomes of Egypt—
nomarchs—gained considerable power.
- To strengthen his position, Amenemhet required registration of land, modified nome borders, and appointed nomarchs directly when offices became vacant.
- Generally, however, he acquiesced to the nomarch system, creating a strongly feudal organization.
- It appears Amenemhet allowed nomarchs to become hereditary again.
- The power of the nomarchs seems to drop off permanently during Sensuret's reign, which has been taken to indicate that the central government had finally suppressed them, though there is no record that Senusret took direct action against them.
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- Another major problem was the rise in power of the provincial nomarchs.
- Toward the end of the Old Kingdom, the positions of the nomarchs had become hereditary, creating family legacies independent from the king.
- A distinguished line of nomarchs rose out of Siut (or Asyut), which was a powerful and wealthy province in the south of the Heracleopolitan kingdom.
- These inscriptions provide a glimpse at the political situation that was present during their reigns, and describe the Siut nomarchs digging canals, reducing taxation, reaping rich harvests, raising cattle herds, and maintaining an army and fleet.
- The Theban kings are believed to have been descendants of Intef or Inyotef, the nomarch of Thebes, often called the "Keeper of the Door of the South. " He is credited with organizing Upper Egypt into an independent ruling body in the south, although he himself did not appear to have tried to claim the title of king.
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- The power of the king and central government declined during this period, while that of nomarchs (regional governors) increased.
- These nomarchs were not part of the royal family.