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- Navarch, Navarchus or Nauarchus (Gr****: ναύαρχος, návarchos) is an Anglicisation of a Gr**** word meaning "leader of the ships", which in some states became...
- might be placed jointly in command. Unlike other Gr**** states, where the nauarchos commanded the navy, the Athenian strategoi held command both at sea and...
- Following further specialization, the naval strategos was replaced by a nauarchos, a sea officer equating to an admiral. With the rise of Macedonia under...
- Callicrates or Kallikrates (Gr****: Καλλικράτης), was a fleet commander (nauarchos) of the Ptolemaic navy, who served under Ptolemy II Philadelphus during...
- Antigonus, son of Menophilus was a Seleucid official (nauarchos). He served under king Alexander (I or II), in the mid-2nd century BC. He is known from...
- mother's request, where he served as governor of the island (strategos, nauarchos, archiereus, archikynegos). Shortly before this he had married his sister...
- The navarch (Gr****: ναύαρχος, romanized: nauarchos) was the magistrate who commanded the fleet in Ancient Sparta. The powers of the navarch were extensive...
- droungarokomēs – The commander of a squadron of dromons. Kentarchos or nauarchos – The captain of a ship. Ethnarchēs — The ethnarch, commander of foreign...
- (general and high priest). After 142 BC, they also bore the title of nauarchos (admiral). Governors usually held the rank of syngenes (royal kinsman)...
- commander of the Ptolemaic forces in the Aegean, perhaps with the title of nauarchos. The last inscriptions concerning him date to c. 280/279 BC, indicating...