Definition of Chiliarch. Meaning of Chiliarch. Synonyms of Chiliarch

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Definition of Chiliarch

Chiliarch
Chilian Chil"i*an, Chiliarch Chil"i*arch`, n. [Gr. ?, ?; ? a thousand + ? leader, ? to lead.] The commander or chief of a thousand men.

Meaning of Chiliarch from wikipedia

- Chiliarch is a military rank dating back to antiquity. Originally denoting the commander of a unit of about one thousand men (a chiliarchy) in the Macedonian...
- Artaxerxes III met an abrupt end after being poisoned by the court eunuch and chiliarch (hazahrapatish) Bagoas, who installed Artaxerxes' youngest son ****s on...
- high-ranking military officers, holding command positions such as general or chiliarch. Alexander the Great appointed Peucestas as eighth somatophylax after...
- C****ius Chaerea Born Roman Empire Died January or February, AD 41 Roman Empire Other names Quereas Occupation Tribunus Militum (Chiliarch)...
- "Commander-in-Chief of the Companion cavalry" (hetairoi) and appointed first or court chiliarch (which made him the senior officer in the Royal Army after the regent...
- commander (chiliarch) of the Roman garrison ("cohort" Acts 21:31) in Jerusalem. Claudius Lysias is called "the tribune" (in Gr**** χιλίαρχος, chiliarch) 16 times...
- had some unknown cognitive disability present throughout his life), the chiliarch Perdiccas, commander of the elite Companion cavalry, persuaded them to...
- Alexander formally made him his second-in-command when he appointed him Chiliarch of the empire. Alexander also made him part of the royal family when he...
- of 338, when Artaxerxes III was murdered by the ambitious eunuch and chiliarch Bagoas, who had the king poisoned. Artaxerxes III's early death proved...
- alternatively bimbashi, (from Turkish: Binbaşı, "chief of a thousand", "chiliarch") is a major in the Turkish army, of which term originated in the Ottoman...