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Tetrarch is a Greek
Greek language

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Tetrarch is a Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 term for a holder of Imperial
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 office under a Tetrarchy
Tetrarchy

Tetrarchy can be applied to any system of government where power is divided between four individuals. The term is usually used to refer to the tetrarchy instituted by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293 which lasted until c. 313....
. It was applied earlier to rulers of minor principalities owing allegiance to Rome.

It can also refer, more loosely, to

  • A provincial
    Province

    A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
     governor
    Governor

    A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
     in a country composed of several smaller parts.
  • A subordinate or dependent prince
    Prince

    Prince, from the Latin root princeps, is a general term for a monarch, for a member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in some members of Europe's highest nobility....
    , or petty sovereign. For example, the Tetrarchs of Roman Palestine
    History of Palestine

    The history of the Southern Levant is the account of events in the greater geographic area in the Southern Levant....
    , such as Herod Antipas
    Herod Antipas

    Herod Antipas After inheriting his territories when the kingdom of his father Herod the Great was divided upon his death in 4 BC, Antipas ruled them as a client state of the Roman Empire....
    , were tributary kings (Matt. 14:9).
  • A Macedonian
    Macedon

    Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
     officer in charge of a unit associated with the number four (tetra), such as a quarter of a larger unit (such as a phalanx
    Phalanx formation

    The phalanx is a rectangular mass military tactical formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pike , or similar weapons....
    , or in one case a 'company' of 64 footmen), or comprising four smaller units (in one case 4 lochoi, each under a lochagos).
  • A Roman
    Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
     military rank, similar to the previous Greek usage
  • A British
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     light tank
    Tank classification

    Tank classification is a taxonomy of identifying either the intended role or weight class of tanks. The classification by role was used primarily during the developmental stage of the national armoured forces, and referred to the doctrinal and force structure utility of the tanks based on design emphasis....
     of World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
    , see Tetrarch tank
    Tetrarch tank

    The Light Tank Mk VII, also known as the Tetrarch, was a United Kingdom Tank classification#Light tank produced by Vickers-Armstrong in the late 1930s and deployed during World War II....
  • Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
    Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)

    Tetrarch is the second novel in Ian Irvine's Well of Echoes quartet....
    , a book by Ian Irvine
    Ian Irvine

    Ian Irvine is an Australian fantasy/eco-Thriller author and marine science....
    , part of the Well of Echoes
    Well of Echoes

    The Well of Echoes is a quartet of novels written by Ian Irvine and is the second arc of The Three Worlds Cycle series....
     series