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Definition of Chiliarchs

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 Chiliarchs from wikipedia

- former chiliarchs maintained considerable political influence and privileges and were known as "Old Chiliarchs". The earliest do****ented chiliarch of Novgorod...
- Artaxerxes III met an abrupt end after being poisoned by the court eunuch and chiliarch (hazahrapatish) Bagoas, who installed Artaxerxes' youngest son ****s on...
- immediately after Alexander's death, naming Philip III as king and the chiliarch Perdiccas as his regent. Antipater, Antigonus Monophthalmus, Craterus...
- commander-in-chief. Logothetis appointed four of his closest aides as the first chiliarchs, who appointed subordinate pentakosiarchs, and they in turn appointed...
- "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...
- (eds.). Brill's New Pauly. Brill Online. Charles, Michael (2015). "The Chiliarchs of Achaemenid Persia: Towards a Revised Understanding of the Office"....
- high-ranking military officers, holding command positions such as general or chiliarch. Alexander the Great appointed Peucestas as eighth somatophylax after...
- 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...
- Alexander's empire, and was appointed Commander of the Companions and chiliarch at the Partition of Babylon in 323 BC. However, after the outbreak of...