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strategos
Sign in to savethumb|Bust of Pericles, statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens; [[Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of BC]] Strategos (), also known by its Latinised form strategus, is a Greek term meaning 'military general'. In the Hellenistic world and in the Byzantine Empire, the term also described a military governor. In the modern Hellenic Army, it is the highest officer rank.
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- Instance of
- military rank
- Country
- Byzantine Empire
- Follows
- taxiarch
- Image
- Greek strategist Pio-Clementino Inv306.jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- applies to jurisdiction
- Classical Athens
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- Byzantine use
- Kingdom of Sicily
- Modern use
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thumb|Bust of Pericles, statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens; [[Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of BC]] Strategos (), also known by its Latinised form strategus, is a Greek term meaning 'military general'. In the Hellenistic world and in the Byzantine Empire, the term also described a military governor. In the modern Hellenic Army, it is the highest officer rank.
== Etymology == Strategos is a compound of two Greek words: stratos and agos. Stratos (στρατός) means 'army', literally 'that which is spread out', coming from the proto-Indo-European root *stere-, 'to spread'. Agos (ἀγός) means 'leader', from agein (ἄγειν), 'to lead', from the pelasgic root *ag-, 'to drive, draw out or forth, move'.
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