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Definition of Satrap

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 Satrap from wikipedia

- A satrap (/ˈsætrəp/) was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian (Achaemenid) Empires and in several of their successors, such as...
- 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...
- 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...
- Peithon, the satrap of Media, ********inated Philip, the satrap of Parthia, and replaced him with his brother Eudemus as the new satrap. In the west Antigonus...
- Arcesilaus (Gr****: Ἀρκεσίλαος) was one of Alexander the Great's generals. Following the death of Alexander, Arcesilaus was allotted Mesopotamia in the...
- Dardanian sub-satrap as the tyrant ruler of ancient Dard**** in Asia Minor. She was the wife of Zenis, sub-satrap under the Persian satrap Pharnabazus II...
- Carian: [𐊪𐊠]𐊲𐊸𐊫𐊦 Mauśoλ) was a ruler of Caria (377–353 BCE) and a satrap of the Achaemenid Empire. He enjo**** the status of king or dynast by virtue...