Definition of Chiliarchy. Meaning of Chiliarchy. Synonyms of Chiliarchy

- Originally denoting the commander of a unit of about one thousand men (a chiliarchy) in the Macedonian army, it was subsequently used as a Gr**** translation...
- him by the Gr**** Government. In 1829, as a pentacosiarch of the seventh Chiliarchy, he took part in the guarding of the Thermopylae p****age. Apart from biographical...
- mounted agema, and was usually led in person by the king. The senior chiliarchy (χιλιαρχία) of the hypaspists and asthetairoi, and later argyraspids (silver...
- despair forced peasants to surrender to the Mongols. They established a chiliarchy office at Yonghung with local officials. Ordering defectors to build ships...
- despair forced peasants to surrender to the Mongols. They established a chiliarchy office at Yonghung with local officials. Ordering defectors to build ships...
- suggests that, in terms of organization, the peltasts were organized into chiliarchies. This elite corps was most likely of the same status, of similar equipment...
- Chiliarch. Photius mentions Perdiccas being appointed "to command the chiliarchy which Hephaestion had originally held". Little is known of Hephaestion's...
- chilia meaning thousand, because they had about 1000 fighting men. A chiliarchy was generally made up of 650 skutatoi and 350 toxotai. The skutatoi formed...
- composed of two syntagmata of 256. Two pentakosiarchies in turn formed a chiliarchy and were commanded by a chiliarch. During the time of Alexander the Great...
- further suggested that Herodotus may have confused the Persian terms for chiliarchy (1,000) and myriarchy (10,000), leading to an exaggeration by a factor...