Achaemenid Cappadocia Cappadocia (from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 Katpatuka) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire located in Anatolia (modern-day...

were divided into two satrapies, or governments, with one comprising the central and inland portion, to which the name of Cappadocia continued to be applied...

Minor (present-day Turkey). It developed from the former Achaemenid satrapy of Cappadocia, and it was founded by its last satrap, Ariarathes (later Ariarathes...

can also refer to: Gregory of Cappadocia, installed as Patriarch of Alexandria against Saint Athanasius Cappadocia (satrapy), a province of the Achaemenid...

last Achaemenid Persian governor (satrap) of the province (satrapy) of Northern Cappadocia, serving from the 340s BC to 331 BC. He led defensive efforts...

Gergere, Turkey, an ancient town lying on the eastern frontier of the Cappadocia satrapy Gergeri, Crete, Greece, named after the Anatolian Gergere, during...

lists the Achaemenid satraps of Cappadocia, an ancient region in central Anatolia. The Satrapy of Capadocia was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire...

The city was captured by the Persians in 550 BC and became part of Cappadocia (satrapy). In the 5th century BC, Amisus became a free state and one of the...

Minor Satrapies. The main administrative units in Anatolia were the Great Satrapy of Sardis (Sparda/Lydia) in the west, Main satrapy of Cappadocia centrally...

Moschi, and Marres) were incorporated into Persia and formed the 19th satrapy, while the northern tribes submitted "voluntarily" and had to send to the...

aid Eumenes in securing his satrapy. Perdiccas probably gave Eumenes 5000 talents of gold for the reconquest of Cappadocia, allowing Eumenes to hire mercenaries...

(Seleucus and Antigenes) while unsuccessfully trying to invade Ptolemy's satrapy of Egypt. With the death of Perdiccas in 321 BC, a new attempt at dividing...

Ionia, known in Old Persian as Yauna (𐎹𐎢𐎴), was a region within the satrapy of Lydia, with its capital at Sardis, within the First Persian Empire....

east and secured control of Babylon (his old satrapy), and then went on to secure the eastern satrapies of Alexander's empire. Antigonus, having defeated...

Cilicia. The duties of the satrap including maintaining peace within his satrapy to ensure agriculture could be conducted and tribute could be produced...

Dynasty or Dynasty 27), also known as the First Egyptian Satrapy (Old Persian: Mudrāya), was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire between 525 and 404 BC. It...

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...

interior. The region of Pontus was originally part of the Persian satrapy of Cappadocia (Katpatuka). The Persian dynasty which was to found this kingdom...

headed to Europe on the ancient Silk Road. The city was the capital of Cappadocia, and Armenian and Cappadocian kings regularly fought over control of the...

Perdiccas, who installed him in Cappadocia by defeating and killing Ariarathes in the summer of 322. Eumenes reorganized his satrapy and appointed his supporters...

was ultimately conquered by the Medes in about 609 BCE. Matiene became a satrapy of the Median Empire until the Persian conquest, when along with tribes...

History portal Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley Achaemenid Empire Satrapies Herodotus Book III, 89-95 Archibald, Zosia; Davies, John K.; Gabrielsen...

Lesser/Hellespontine Phrygia, Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, Lydia and Cilicia All sources agree on the distribution of these satrapies to, respectively, Antigonus...

BC Alexander appointed him governor of Lydia and the other parts of the satrapy of Spithridates, and also placed under his command an army of cavalry and...

much of Anatolia. In 319 BC, Antigonus marched his army into Cappadocia (Eumenes's satrapy) and in a lightning campaign (see: battle of Orkynia) drove...

Asian satrapies, Alexander was finally free to turn his attention to the Indian subcontinent. Alexander invited all the chieftains of the former satrapy of...

Several satrapies were founded by the Achaemenid empire in the Indian subcontinent, including; Gandāra satrapy Hindush satrapy Sattagydia satrapy Other...

century BC, it covered all of western Anatolia. In 546 BC, it became a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire, known as Sparda in Old Persian. In 133 BC, it...

military leader, who served as the governor (satrap) of the Achaemenid satrapy of Cappadocia (or Cilicia; the evidence is contradictory) from the 380s BC to...

The root of the kingdom lies in one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia called Armenia (Satrapy of Armenia), which was formed from the territory...