-
meaning "keeper").[citation needed]
Although the
first large-scale use of
satrapies, or provinces,
originates from the
inception of the
Achaemenid Empire...
- "in
charge of the
upper satrapies" (Gr****: ὁ ἐπί τῶν ἄνω σατραπειῶν, romanized: ho epi tōn anō satrapeiōn). The
Upper Satrapies comprised the
entire eastern...
-
region controlled by the
Orontid dynasty (570–201 BC), was one of the
satrapies of the
Achaemenid Empire in the 6th
century BC that
later became an independent...
- can be
considered one of the
Indian satrapies of the
Achaemenid Empire. Maka was an
important early eastern satrapy of
Cyrus the Great,
founder of the...
-
Lydia (
satrapy) 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭,
Sparda The
Satrapy of Lydia,
known as
Sparda in Old
Persian (Old
Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda), was an administrative...
- independence, in particular, in
between the
first and
second Egyptian Satrapies.
Cambyses II
became the
Pharaoh of
Egypt after his
successful subsumption...
-
Cappadocia Cappadocia (from Old
Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 Katpatuka) was a
satrapy (province) of the
Achaemenid Empire located in
Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)...
-
Bactria (
satrapy)
Bactria (Old Persian: 𐎲𐎠𐎧𐎫𐎼𐎡𐏁 Bāxtriš) was a
satrapy of the
Achaemenid Empire. It was
conquered between 545–540 BC by
Cyrus the...
-
Libya 𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹, Putāya
Libya (Old Persian: 𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹 Putāya) was a
satrapy of the
Achaemenid Empire, that
corresponded to the
current region of eastern...
- lost one
third of his men.
Several scholars have
argued that the
Persian satrapy Maka is
identical to
Gedrosia (which is a Gr**** name). One
argument is...
