The merarchēs (), sometimes Anglicized as merarch, was a Byzantine military rank roughly equivalent to a divisional general.
The merarchēs (), sometimes Anglicized as merarch, was a Byzantine military rank roughly equivalent to a divisional general.
==History== The title derives from the Greek words meros (Greek: μέρος, "part, division") and archein (, "to rule, command"). The term merarchēs is attested for the first time in the late 6th century in the Stratēgikon, a military manual attributed to the Byzantine emperor Maurice (r. 582–602), although the historian Warren Treadgold has suggested that the rank and the corresponding formation date back to the reign of Emperor Zeno (r. 474–499). In the time of the Stratēgikon, a field army (commanded by a stratēgos) comprised usually three merē, each probably some five to seven thousand-strong. The meros in turn was divided into several moirai consisting of a number of tagmata or banda, each commanded by a doux.
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