- "town" + ban بان
meaning "keeper").
Although the
first large-scale use of
satrapies, or provinces,
originates from the
inception of the
Achaemenid Empire...
-
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...
- "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...
- 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...
-
Cilicia was a
satrapy of the
Achaemenid Empire, with its
capital being Tarsus. It was
conquered sometime in the 540's BC by
Cyrus the Great.
Cilicia was...
-
Lydia (
satrapy) 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭,
Sparda The
Satrapy of Lydia,
known as
Sparda in Old
Persian (Old
Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda), was an administrative...
-
Seleucus I
Nicator of the
Seleucid Empire sought to
retake the
Indian satrapies of the
Macedonian Empire,
which had been
occupied by
Emperor Chandragupta...
- 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...
-
Cappadocia Cappadocia (from Old
Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 Katpatuka) was a
satrapy (province) of the
Achaemenid Empire located in
Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)...
- Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐎹 hUvārazmiya, 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 hUvārazmiš) was a
satrapy of the
Achaemenid Empire in Persia.
Chorasmia had
become part of the Achaemenid...
