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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.

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- 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...
- refers to the military conflict between the Gupta Empire and the Western Satraps during the 4th century CE. Chandragupta II, also known as Chandragupta...
- The Sarcophagus of the Satrap is an ancient marble funerary monument discovered at the Ayaa Necropolis in Sidon, present-day Lebanon, and is believed to...
- 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...
- 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...
- Alexander was Satrap of Persis circa 220 BC....