1) Ancient Roman proconsul 2) Ancient Roman title 3) Functionary 4) Official
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A proconsul was a governor of a province in the Roman Republic appointed for one year by the senate. In modern usage, the title has been used (sometimes disparagingly) for a person from one country ruling another country or bluntly interfering in another country`s internal affairs. ==Ancient Rome== In the Roman Republic a promagistrate (like a pr....
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[primate] Proconsul is an extinct genus of primates that existed from 23 to 25 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. Fossil remains are present in Eastern Africa including Kenya and Uganda. Four species have been classified to date: P. africanus, P. heseloni, P. major and P. nyanzae. The four species differ mainly in body size. Enviro...
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• (n.) An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.
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(from the article `ape`) ...deposits have yielded such fossils as Pliopithecus, once thought to be related to gibbons but now known to be primitive and long separated from ... ...at these sites, 17 million to 19 million years old, and exploration of new sites (one of them as much as 24 million years old) in northern Kenya ... [2 rela...
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in the ancient Roman Republic, a consul whose powers had been extended for a definite period after his regular term of one year. From the mid-4th ... [2 related articles]
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Prehistoric ape skull found on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria (Nyanza), East Africa, by Mary
Leakey. It is believed to be 20 million years old. ...
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Roman
consul (chief magistrate) who went on to govern a province when his term as consul ended. ...
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Former consul exercising similar imperium after his term of office. provincial governor.
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A Roman magistrate, who was usually a former consul, in charge of a province. Like a propraetor, the proconsul was someone who acted as if (pro) he were an official magistrate. He could have all the powers of a consul, but was, in fact, a former consul, whose term in office was prolonged (prorogatio). This magistracy was invented in the last quarte…...
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Pro·con'sul noun [ Latin , from
pro for +
consul consul.]
(Rom. Antiq.) An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.
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[
n] - an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power 2. [n] - a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire 3. [n] - an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
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noun an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
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Prehistoric ape skull found on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria (Nyanza), East Africa, by Mary Leakey. It is believed to be 20 million years old
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an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul. · any appointed administrator over a dependency or an occupied area.
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