Chiliarch

Chiliarch ( other Greek: χιλίαρχος, χιλιάρχης, χιλιαρχοῦντος ) - among the Macedonians and Ancient Egypt among the Ptolemies, the post of commander of the chiliarchy, that is, thousands of lightly armed (from χίλιοι: = one thousand), although theoretically 2 pentesiarchies, or 4 syntagmas ^[1] , or 64 suckers (there were 16 people in the sucker), consisted of 1024 people.

The term was first used in Achaemenid Stainless ( hazahrapatish ). Arrian mentions the chiliarch Nabarzan ^[2] , who is credited with the leadership of 30 thousand horsemen ^[3] .

The division of the army into thousands was borrowed by the Macedonians from the Persians, who had the posts of chiefs of hundreds ( hecatontarch ), thousands ( chiliarch ) and ten thousand ( miriarch ).

The Persian chiliarch , as the commander of the life guard, consisting of 1000 personal bodyguards of the imperial person, was obliged to submit daily reports to the tsar and introduce ambassadors and petitioners to him, played an important role in the court of the Achaemenids. After the death of Alexander the Great, the position of the chiliarch was considered very high and honorable: the chiliarchs were Perdikka and Kassander . In addition, the word chiliarch was used by Greek writers to mean the posts of the Roman military tribunes ( tribuni militum ) and the military stands with consular authority ( tribuni militum consulari potestate ).

The chiliarchs often played a role similar to that of the vizier in later times.

The Gospel account of the arrest of Jesus Christ mentions that Judas led a detachment of a Roman cohort with a thousand captain (chiliarch), high priests and slaves.