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Navarch ( pronounced " návarchos ") is a Greek word meaning " ___MASK56___ of the ships ", which in some states became the title of an office equivalent to that of a modern ___MASK17___ . A trireme ( derived from Latin : " trirmis " " with three banks of oars "; " trirs ", literally " three - ___MASK1___ ") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean , especially the Phoenicians , ancient Greeks and Romans . Alexander III of Macedon ( 20 / 21 July 356 BC  10 / 11 June 323 BC ), commonly known as Alexander the Great (" Aléxandros ho Mégas " ), was a ___MASK73___ (" basileus ") of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a ___MASK43___ of the Argead dynasty . Born in Pella in 356 BC , Alexander succeeded his ___MASK79___ , Philip II , to the throne at the age of twenty . He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented ___MASK68___ campaign through Asia and northeast Africa , and by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world , stretching from Greece to northwestern India . He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history ' s most successful ___MASK68___ commanders . Pantauchus ( Greek :  ) ( late 4th century BC - 3rd century BC ) , ( son of Nicolaus , from Aloros ) was a Macedonian trierarch of Nearchus ' s fleet and ___MASK58___ during the short reign of Demetrius Poliorcetes ( 294 - 288 BC ) . He was considered to be the bravest as well as physically the strongest among Demetrius ' ___MASK86___ commanders . When Demetrius decided to invade Aetolia , king Pyrrhus of Epirus set out to meet him with his ___MASK86___ . However , the two armies marched following different directions and did not encounter each other . As a result , Demetrius started pillaging Epirote territory . He had stationed a large proportion of his forces in Aetolia under Pantauchus ' orders . Consequently , Pyrrhus led his troops into battle against Pantauchus . The conflict was remarkable for its intensity and harsh nature , since commanders from both sides displayed great courage and dare . Pantauchus challenged king Pyrrhus himself and soon enough a hard duel began between them . Initially , they used their spears but after a while they engaged in hand to hand combat with swords . The two men were skillful fighters and Pantauchus struck the Epirote king once but Pyrrhus wounded his opponent in the thigh and along the neck . The Macedonian ___MASK58___ was forced to flee and his companions managed to rescue him . Pyrrhus ' legendary personal valor and fighting ability proved crucial for the battle ' s result , since the Epirotes were greatly inspired by their ruler ' s example and crushed the enemy phalanx . Several retreating Macedonians were killed and 5 , 000 were captured . Aloros was a town of Bottiaea , Macedon , on the Thermaic Gulf , at the mouth of Haliacmon river near modern Alexandreia . It was the birthplace of Ptolemy the ___MASK83___ and Pantauchus the ___MASK58___ of Alexander the Great . Nearchus ( Nearchos ; c . 360  300 BC ) was one of the officers , a navarch , in the ___MASK86___ of Alexander the Great . He is known for his celebrated voyage from the Indus river to the Persian Gulf following the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great , in 326  324 BC . An account of his voyage is given in Arrian ' s " Indica ", written in the 2nd century AD . Arrian of Nicomedia ( possibly " Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon "; Greek " Arrianos ") was a Greek ___MASK77___ , public servant , ___MASK68___ commander and philosopher of the Roman period . Trierarch (" trirarchos ") was the title of officers who commanded a trireme (" trires ") in the classical Greek world . The Haliacmon ( Modern Greek :  , " Aliákmonas "; formerly : , " Aliákmon " or " Haliákmn "; Slavic : "  ", " Bistrica ";) is the longest river in Greece , with a total length of .( In Greece there are two rivers longer than Haliakmon , Maritsa ( in Greek "  ") and Vardar ( in Greek "  "), but the length of each one of them in Greek territory is less than that of Haliakmon , which flows entirely in Greece ). " Haliacmon " is the traditional English name for the river , but many sources cite the formerly ___MASK95___ Katharevousa version of the name , " Aliákmon ". Today , the only ___MASK95___ variant is the demotic " Aliákmonas ". It flows through the Greek regions of West Macedonia ( Kastoria , Grevena and Kozani regional units ) and Central Macedonia ( Imathia and Pieria regional units ). The Indus River , also called Darya - e - Sindh or Sindh River or Absn , is a ___MASK32___ south - flowing river in South Asia . The total length of the river is which makes it one of the longest rivers in Asia . Originating in the western part of Tibet in the vicinity of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar , the river runs a course through Ladakh , Gilgit - Baltistan , and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , and then flows along the entire length of Punjab to merge into the Arabian Sea near the city of Thatta in Sindh . It is the longest river of Pakistan .