tetrarch

Tetrarch (Ancient Greek: Τετράρχης, Tetrárchēs, "ruler of a quarter"; later also Greek: Τέτραρχος, Tétrarchos) can refer to:

• one of the four co-emperors of the Roman Empire under the Tetrarchy.
• minor provincial rulers of a territory divided in four parts:
  • the Tetrarchs of Thessaly under Philip II of Macedon
  • the Tetrarchs of Galatia in Asia Minor
  • the Tetrarchs of Roman Palestine, such as Herod Antipas
• a military rank
  • in the Macedonian army, an officer in charge of a unit associated with the number four (tetra), such as a quarter of a larger unit (such as a phalanx, or in one case a 'company' of 64 footmen), or comprising four smaller units (in one case 4 lochoi, each under a lochagos).
  • in the Byzantine army, a tetrarchos was the soldier given command over 4 men in a file.
• Tetrarch tank, a British light tank of World War II
• Tetrarch (Well of Echoes), a book by Ian Irvine, part of the Well of Echoes series

References

• Encyclopedia, MS Encarta 2001, under article "Tetrarch".

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