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tetrarch

 
(tĕt'rärk', tē'trärk') pronunciation
n.
    1. A subordinate ruler.
    2. One of four joint rulers.
  1. A governor of one of four divisions of a country or province, especially in the ancient Roman Empire.
  2. The commander of a subdivision of a phalanx in ancient Greece.

[Middle English tetrarche, a Roman tetrarch, from Old French, from Late Latin tetrarcha, from Latin tetrarchēs, from Greek tetrarkhēs : tetra-, tetra- + -arkhēs, -arch.]

tetrarchic te·trar'chic (tĕ-trär'kĭk, tē-) adj.

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In Greco-Roman antiquity, the ruler of a principality, originally the ruler of one-quarter of a region or province. The first tetrarchs ruled the four tetrarchies of Thessaly under Philip II of Macedonia. Tetrarchs ruled in Galatia (in Asia Minor) before the Roman conquest (169 BC) and still later in Hellenized Syria and Palestine, where the title denoted the semi-independent ruler of a divided kingdom or minor district. Herod the Great's realm after his death (4 BC) was ruled by his three sons, two of whom were called tetrarchs.

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  • Titles of Rank - tetrarch: ruler of fourth part of a province in ancient Roman Empire


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  • Tetrarchus, a short-lived emperor whose empire consisted of Britain, Gaul, Germany and Spain
  • Philip the Tetrarch, the ruler of the northeast part of his father's kingdom
  • Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee and Perea
  • Herod Archelaus, actually titled ethnarch, the ruler of Idumaea, Judea and Samaria

 
 

 

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