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Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 hypodiakonos, "assistant servant") was an office

Office

An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...

 (bureaucratic) occupation

Profession

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 in prikaz

Prikaz

Prikaz was an administrative or judicial office in Muscovy and Russia of 15th-18th centuries. The term is usually translated as "ministry", "office" or "department". In modern Russian "prikaz" means administrative or military order...

es (local and upper governmental offices) and lesser local offices of Russia

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 in 15th-18th centuries.

As an anachronism, it may be loosely translated as clerk the Latin word equally derived from a clerical title, and generically used.

Podyachyes were classified into junior, middle and senior. A senior podyachy (Старший подьячий) was a councillor to a dyak

Dyak (clerk)

Dyak is a historical Russian bureaucratic occupation whose meaning varied over time and approximately corresponded to the notions of "chief clerk" or "chief of office department"....

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See also

• See "Voyevoda#Siberia for their role in Siberian administration
• See "Deacon#Cognates" for other historical terms derived from the Greek diakonos.