Tagmatarchis, in more archaic context transliterated as Tagmatarches , anglicized as Tagmatarch, is used in the Greek language

Greek language

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 to mean "Major

Major

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". More precisely, it means "commander of a tagma

Tagma (military)

The tagma is a term for a military unit of battalion or regiment size. The best-known and most technical use of the term however refers to the elite regiments formed by Byzantine emperor Constantine V and comprising the central army of the Byzantine Empire in the 8th–11th centuries.-History and...

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The rank dates to Antiquity

Ancient history

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 and was also used in the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

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. In the modern Hellenic Army

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, the rank is superior to a Lokhagos

Lokhagos

Lochagos is used in the Greek language to mean "Captain". More precisely, it means "leader of a lochos".-Ancient Use:The term has been used since the times of Ancient Greece, where the place of the rank in the military hierarchy differed from city-state to city-state. For example, Xenophon...

(captain) and inferior to an Antisyntagmatarchis (Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant colonel

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), and held either usually by battalion (tagma) executive officers (battalions are typically commanded by Lieutenant Colonels). In this case they are addressed as "Kyrie Ypodioikita" (Κύριε υποδιοικητά), or simply as "Kyrie Tagmatarcha" (Κύριε Ταγματάρχα) in other cases.