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satraps (noun) - In ancient Persia, 'satraps' were provincial governors appointed by the king to administer territories. They held significant power and were responsible for collecting taxes and maintaining order in their respective regions. Example: The satraps reported directly to the Persian king
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Petty local satraps leave bodies in the street.
It was his duty to select the satraps.
Most satraps had died.
Those cities were then ruled by satraps.
A thousand rich dukes and satraps want to be kings.
There was no need to replace any eastern satraps.
Satraps are known only sporadically.
My husband said she was worth ten satraps.
Over a third of his satraps are replaced and six are put to death.
So the governors and satraps.
Some of the satraps revolted periodically but did not pose a serious threat.
Daniel was one of three commissioners whose job it was to oversee the satraps.
The satraps were immediate representatives of the king and directly responsible to him.
Rise of regional satraps.
Retrograde regional satraps are outdated in a uniting Europe.
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Darius organized the empire by dividing it into provinces and placing satraps to govern it.
These satraps were personally picked by Darius to monitor these provinces.
He raises an army and forms a coalition with the satraps of the eastern provinces.
Satraps were Persian nobles who were at the head of a province or satrapy.
He had kept the same satrapies and in many cases the same satraps.
The other governors and the satraps were envious of Daniel.
So a shabby satraps must be seen as öbersten representatives of the German people.
The influence of Hydarnes also secured the appointment of his sons as satraps.
The region remained under control of Greek satraps for only a few decades.
Persian Kings ruled by appointing local governors called Satraps.
Other administrators and Satraps were envious.
Armenian satraps regularly intermarried with the family of the King of Kings.
The appointed stewards of the Mall behaved like arrogant satraps they claim.
The distribution of satraps in the Macedonian Empire after settlement in Babylon.
Revolt of the Satraps.
Some coins of Western Satraps and possibly of Andhra coins of Gautamiputra Satkarni were found.
On the other hand, he was accepted by other satraps of the eastern provinces.
Satraps - chief representatives of the king.
The best years in company of th is murderer, and butcher and his satraps.
During times of war, the satraps were expected to provide their sovereign with troops.
They rule their provinces according to their own will, they become satraps.
Ariobarzanes was also killed, but the other satraps were pardoned, thus ending the rebellion.
Inspectors formed a body of auditors who controlled the interests of the king, watching the satraps.
The satraps and their unique manias, some raised pyramids, others constructed memoirs with pharaonic titles.
More money will come . A thousand rich dukes and satraps want to be kings.
New satraps rather than the Yervandunis, for there is no mention of.
The capital also mentions the genealogy of several Indo-Scythian satraps of Mathura.
Rebellions of satraps became frequent from the middle of the 5th century BCE.
Nepal 's Maoist revolution checked by Delhi and its satraps.
As the king died, the satraps compelled his son Radigis to marry his stepmother.
Justin, however, names Amyntas and Scytheaus as satraps of Bactria and Sogdiana.
Some of their satraps were Hagamasha and Hagana, who were in turn followed by Rajuvula.
To support the war with Athens, the Persian satraps entered into an alliance with Sparta.
After the fall of Achaemenid Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors retained the satraps.
The American Empire 's satraps are all on the move.
