English

Noun

dodecarchy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural dodecarchies)

1. (uncountable) government by a group of twelve people
   • 1852, Barthold Georg Niebuhr & Marcus von Niebuhr, Lectures on Ancient History, p. 105.

     And this dodecarchy may have lasted much longer than is stated by Herodotus; the immense labyrinth on Lake Moeris, the building of which is ascribed to it, is a proof of this, or else we must deny that it was erected during the dodecarchy.

2. (countable) such a group of twelve people