Definition of Satraps. Meaning of Satraps. Synonyms of Satraps

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Satraps. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Satraps and, of course, Satraps synonyms and on the right images related to the word Satraps.

Definition of Satraps

Satrap
Satrap Sa"trap (? or ?; 277), n. [L. satrapes, Gr. ?, fr. OPers. khshatrap[=a]van ruler: cf. F. satrape.] The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.

Meaning of Satraps from wikipedia

- adopted the title "satrap" for the semi-autonomous princes that governed one of its Armenian provinces, the Satrapiae. The Western Satraps or Kshatrapas (35–405...
- The Western Satraps, or Western Kshatrapas (Brahmi:, Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps") were Indo-Scythian (Saka) rulers of the western and central parts...
- Satrapes was a god in the Palmyrene pantheon, the name occurring in Syrian inscriptions from Palmyra and the Hauran. Pausanias (vi.25, 26) mentions 'Satrapes'...
- The Northern Satraps (Brahmi: , Kṣatrapa, "Satraps" or , Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps"), or sometimes Satraps of Mathura, or Northern Sakas, are a dynasty...
- incorrectly called Achaemenides by Ctesias) was an Achaemenid general and satrap of ancient Egypt during the early 5th century BC, at the time of the 27th...
- The Sarcophagus of the Satrap is an ancient ****enistic marble funerary monument discovered at the Ayaa Necropolis in Sidon, present-day Lebanon, and is...
- Philotas (Gr****: Φιλώτας; lived 4th century BC) was a Macedonian officer in the service of Alexander the Great, who commanded one taxis or division of...
- on the model of the Western Satraps Coin of Gupta ruler Chandragupta II (r.380–415) in the style of the Western Satraps. Coin of Gupta ruler Kumaragupta...
- Imara satrapes is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The wingspan is about 75 mm. Imara satrapes catharina...
- over Indian kings around 60 BCE, thus founding the Northern Satraps. Some of their first satraps were Hagamasha and Hagana, who were in turn followed by Rajuvula...