• 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...
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    Artaxerxes III met an abrupt end after being poisoned by the court eunuch and chiliarch (hazahrapatish) Bagoas, who installed Artaxerxes' youngest son Arses on...
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  • commander (chiliarch) of the Roman garrison ("cohort" Acts 21:31) in Jerusalem. Claudius Lysias is called "the tribune" (in Greek χιλίαρχος, chiliarch) 16 times...
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    "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...
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  • Cassius Chaerea Born Roman Empire Died January or February, AD 41 Roman Empire Other names Quereas Occupation Tribunus Militum (Chiliarch)...
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    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...
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    had some unknown cognitive disability present throughout his life), the chiliarch Perdiccas, commander of the elite Companion cavalry, persuaded them to...
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    high-ranking military officers, holding command positions such as general or chiliarch. Alexander the Great appointed Peucestas as eighth somatophylax after...
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  • alternatively bimbashi, (from Turkish: Binbaşı, "chief of a thousand", "chiliarch") is a major in the Turkish army, of which term originated in the Ottoman...
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    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...
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  • He finished sixth in the competition in Sittacene, and was appointed chiliarch or pentacosiarch of the hypaspists. Heckel, Waldemar (2006). Who's who...
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    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...
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  • Putyata (Russian: Путята) was a tysyatsky (chiliarch) of Vladimir the Great whose name is mentioned in the Ioachim Chronicle. According to the chronicle...
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    father's governance, he was later assigned by Antipater to Antigonus as his chiliarch from 321 to 320, probably to monitor the latter's activities. As Antipater...
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    immediately after Alexander's death, naming Philip III as king and the chiliarch Perdiccas as his regent. Antipater, Antigonus Monophthalmus, Craterus...
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    inscription in Greek: "[For] the god Yarhibol, Scribonius Moucianus, chiliarch, made this as commanded." It is notable because it shows that a man who...
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  • Chieftain Global Executive/ judicial/ legislative Elected/ hereditary Tribal Chiliarch Greek Executive Appointed Divisional (1,000 soldiers) Chorbishop Greek...
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    with him. In late August/late September 338 BC, the court eunuch and chiliarch (hazahrapatish) Bagoas orchestrated the poisoning and subsequent death...
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  • tutelage of U T'ak as one of his students. Yi served the Yuan dynasty as a chiliarch(천호; 千戶). After his nephew, Yi Sŏng-gye (이성계) established the new dynasty...
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    conspired against Darius III with other Persian grandees, such as the chiliarch Nabarzanes, and Barsaentes, the satrap of Arachosia–Drangiana. Together...
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    and garrison commander of Mount Apokleistra. In 1825 he was promoted to chiliarch. He was later promoted to general rank, and was elected to the national...
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  • in other seals such as the seal of "Kedīr, the hazāruxt" ("Kedir the Chiliarch"), dated by Sims-Williams to the last quarter of the 5th century CE from...
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    was appointed his successor as commander of the Companion cavalry and chiliarch, effectively becoming Alexander's second-in-command. He was also entrusted...
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  • father of Yi Sŏng-gye, founder of the Joseon Dynasty. Yi Cha-ch'un was a chiliarch of a Yuan Dynasty mingghan in Ssangseong Prefecture (present-day Kŭmya...
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    and under other chieftains. Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias named him a chiliarch in 1827. After independence, King Otto of Greece promoted him to major...
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    were harassed and ill-treated. While the imperial legate was away, the chiliarch, a military commander, and the duumvir, a civil magistrate, threw a number...
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  • taxiarch of Alexander Hephaestion – Chiliarch (after 327 BC) Perdiccas – Chiliarch (after 324 BC) Seleucus I Nicator – Chiliarch (after 323 BC) Aristonous of...
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    yielded to the representations of Pharnabazus II, strongly supported by the chiliarch (vizier) Tithraustes and by the queen-mother Parysatis, who hated Tissaphernes...
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     159, The most important official after the posadnik was the tysiatskii (chiliarch, 'thousandman'), originally the military commander. Feldbrugge 2017, p...
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  • (died c. 330 BC) was a high-ranking Persian commander, who served as the chiliarch of the royal cavalry of the Achaemenid King of Kings Darius III (r. 336–330 BC)...
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