English

Noun

præfecture ‎(plural præfectures)

1. Obsolete form of prefecture.
   • 1824, William Martin Leake, Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor (published by John Murray), chapter II, page 64:

     Archelaus the last king of Cappadocia, having added all the country on the northern side of the mountain to his kingdom, together with a large portion of Cilicia Tracheia, Tiberius, who put him to death at Rome, included it all, except the maritime parts, in the Roman province of Cappadocia; and he added to the ten præfectures of the late kingdom of Archelaus an eleventh, composed chiefly of his Cilician conquests : and hence called the Cilician præfecture of Cappadocia.