Hipparchos (cavalry officer)
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A Hipparchus or Hipparch was the title of an ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

 cavalry
Cavalry
Cavalry or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Cavalry were historically the third oldest and the most mobile of the combat arms...

 officer, commanding a hipparchia (unit of about 500 horsemen); two such units were commanded by an Epihipparchos
Epihipparchos
Epihipparch is an Ancient Greek military title for a cavalry commander of 1,000 horses. This unit was divided into two hipparchiai of 500. Each of these was commanded by a hipparchos....

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