- A lochos,
plural lochoi (Gr****: λόχος lokhos, pl. λόχοι lokhoi), is a
tactical sub unit of
classical Greece and of the
modern Gr**** army. The term derived...
- used
during the
Persian Wars, as
Herodotus had made
references to the "
lochoi" in his Histories. The
changes that
occurred between the
Persian and the...
- line-up of
several battalion blocks called syntagmata, each of its 16
files (
lochoi)
numbering 16 men, for a
total of 256 in each unit. Each
syntagma was commanded...
- (Netherlands) 7e
Compagnie de
Commandos (France) 1st
Paratroopers Brigade,
Lochoi Oreinon Katadromon or LOK (Greece) Özel Harp
Dairesi (Turkey)
Training was...
-
squadron of 250
Companions commanded by an ilarch, and was
divided into two
lochoi, in turn
divided into two
tetrarchies of 60 cavalrymen,
commanded by a tetrarch...
- communists. When
Greece joined NATO in 1952, the country's
special forces, LOK (
Lochoi Oreinōn Katadromōn, i.e., "mountain
raiding companies"), were integrated...
- from the rich and
noble classes.
Philopoemen organized the
cavalry in
lochoi,
which usually in
ancient military treatises means 'files', most probably...
-
Mountain Raider Companies (Gr****: Λόχοι Ορεινών Καταδρομών, romanized:
Lochoi Oreinōn Katadromōn),
commonly known by
their acronym, LOK (ΛΟΚ), were formed...
-
pezhetairoi and the
hypaspists heavy infantry,
subdivided into 64
files (
lochoi) of 16 men each. At the same time,
officers known as
pentakosiarchs ("commanders...
- phalanx, also
reformed the cavalry. The
Achaean cavalry was
organised into
lochoi,
files of
eight men, who were then
grouped into dilochiai,
double files...
