Spartans had kingship in their home and were supportive of oligarchic governments in other cities, and vice versa, cities with oligarchic and not democratic political system supported Sparta.

It helped create and perpetuate an oligarchic system in the Spanish colony for more than three hundred years.

The politics of café com leite rested on an oligarchic system known as coronelismo.

By the time of Caesar's invasion, the Treveri seemed to have adopted an oligarchic system of government.

One of the most long-lived constitutions of Latin America it was used to endorse both an authoritarian presidentialist system and from 1891 onwards an oligarchic parliamentary system.

This move created a virtually oligarchic system, disenfranchising a great majority of the citizens and provoking some unrest.

In an oligarchic system, all the power is held by a small group of people.

Even though urban governments showed rare signs of democracy they were primarily an oligarchic system marked by an exclusive hierarchy.

Venice adopted an oligarchic, 'parliamentary' system in an attempt at limited democracy.

Sparta introduces an oligarchic system, the Thirty Tyrants, in Athens.