Definition of Satrapy. Meaning of Satrapy. Synonyms of Satrapy

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Definition of Satrapy

Satrapy
Satrapy Sa"trap*y (?; 277), n.; pl. Satrapies. [L. satrapia, satrapea, Gr. ?: cf. F. satrapie.] The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality. --Milton.

Meaning of Satrapy from wikipedia

- successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the ****enistic empires. A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap. A satrap served as a viceroy to...
- Dynasty or Dynasty 31), also known as the Second Egyptian Satrapy, was effectively a satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire between 343 BC to 332 BC...
- speakers until the early 1st millennium AD. Like in the rest of the western satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire, Persians had moved in Cilicia, and archaeological...
- Lydia (satrapy) 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda The Satrapy of Lydia, known as Sparda in Old Persian (Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda), was an administrative...
- Moschi, and Marres) were incorporated into Persia and formed the 19th satrapy, while the northern tribes submitted "voluntarily" and had to send to the...
- established by the second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt. These two periods of satrapies were punctuated by a brief interval of Egyptian independence from 404...
- Maka (Old Persian: 𐎢𐎣 Maka-) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire and later a satrapy of the Parthian and Sasanian empires (known as Mazun)...
- Bactria (satrapy) Bactria (Old Persian: 𐎲𐎠𐎧𐎫𐎼𐎑𐏁 BāxtriΕ‘) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. It was conquered between 545–540 BC by Cyrus the...
- The Satrapy of Armenia (Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎑𐎴 Armina or 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎑𐎴𐎹 Arminiya), a region controlled by the Orontid dynasty (570–201 BC), was one of...
- Chandragupta confronted each other, Seleucus intending to retake the former satrapies each of the Indus. Yet, Seleucus Nicator and Chandragupta formed a dynastic...