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satrapy (noun): a province in ancient Persia governed by a satrap
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- The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of Western Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sassanian Empire and Hellenistic empires).
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This satrapy was later broken up and recombined.
Stasanor consequently assumed power in the satrapy himself.
Each satrapy was led by a governor called a satrap.
Regional autonomy in the form of the satrapy system.
The satrapy as a whole was to yield three hundred talents.
This was the sixteenth satrapy.
Even as a Persian satrapy it had retained a degree of autonomy.
Syria is on its way to becoming an Iranian satrapy.
Each satrapy contributed annual tribute and was ruled by a Persian governor.
This is a very large Tappa satrapy.
He invaded the satrapy of Parthia and made his brother Eudemus the new satrap.
Satraps were Persian nobles who were at the head of a province or satrapy.
Herodotus mentions that the Indus satrapy supplied cavalry and chariots to the Persian army.
The Achaemenids allowed a certain amount of regional autonomy in the form of the satrapy system.
Gordium was now included in the satrapy of Greater Phrygia.
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In the division of the Persian empire they formed part of the third Persian satrapy.
Russia would prefer that Syria not become an Iranian satrapy after the fighting is over.
The name of the satrapy was changed to Asuristan in the Sassanid period.
The black market grew strong with corruption holding fast to the Satrapy and its aristocracy.
The satrapy was established in upper Punjab presumably in the Potohar plateau region.
Tithraustes bribes the Spartans to move north into the satrapy of Pharnabazus.
Satrapy of Parthia.
Kamboja and Gandhara formed the twentieth and richest satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire.
Satrapy of Armenia.
The capital of Gandhara satrapy was Pushkalavati.
Alexander the Great united Sogdiana with Bactria in to one satrapy.
A satrapy was an administrative unit, usually organized on a geographical.
The Island was a Stalinist satrapy.
The fourth satrapy or that of Cilicia, which.
He even encouraged Papak to take over the Parthian satrapy of Pars.
The persian satrapy of Skudra included which two areas?
The region of Pontus was originally part of the Persian satrapy of Cappadocia Katpatuka.
The satrapy of Bactria seized this opportunity to gain independence, and formed the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom.
Tissaphernes ' influence is limited to the satrapy of Carla.
Cilicia was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire, with its capital being Tarsus.
It was conquered by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy.
They were all under the satrapy of Lydia, not under Miletus.
The Satrap 's power is so expansive that the empire is often referred to as a satrapy.
The persian satrapy of Skudra included which two areas? Macedonia and Thrace.
Artaxerxes is unwilling to help him, but instead gives him the satrapy of Magnesia.
Lydia remained a satrapy after Persia 's conquest by the Macedonian king Alexander III of Macedon.
The Colchians themselves, were not classified as belonging to any Satrapy.
Abarshahr was a satrapy (province) of the Sasanian Empire.
During Persian rule, it made part of the Skudra satrapy province.
Abarshahr was a satrapy ( province ) of the Sassanid Empire.
It comprised Aramea, Phoenicia, and Cyprus which was also included in the satrapy.
Bactria ( satrapy ) Bactria was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire.
After the Achaemenid invasion, the region became part of the Satrapy of Armenia.
Achaemenid Empire of Persia, it was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy.
The Achaemenid empire had ended, and for a while Egypt was a satrapy in Alexander 's empire.
