Nomos
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Nomos is a Greek word for province or prefecture (nomOs, νομός), the administrative division immediately below the peripheries of Greece. There are 51 nomoi, distributed among the 13 peripheries. A prefect (nomarches) is elected.

See: Prefectures of Greece.

Nomos is also the etymological origin for the word nome, conventionally used to designate the subdivisions of Ancient Egypt.

See: Nome (subnational division).

Nomos also means "law" (nOmos, νόμος). It is an etymon of astronomy ("laws of the stars")

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