of the "Upper Satrapies" was created already during the late Achaemenid Empire, where superior military commands covering several satrapies are attested...

satraps of the upper satrapies. These letters ordered the satraps, in the kings' names, to join him with all their forces. The upper satraps had already...

threatening the upper satrapies. Eumenes wanted to march westward, and cut Antigonus's lines of supply, but the satraps refused to abandon their satrapies and forced...

Empire), Peithon tried to expand his power over the eastern satrapies. He invaded the satrapy of Parthia, killed its Satrap Philip, and made his brother...

known about any Antiochus II's activities in regards to the eastern Upper Satrapies such as Media, Parthia, Bactria or Persis. Chiefly preoccupied with...

manages to take it by storm. Nicanor, Antigonus' commander of the Upper Satrapies, marches against Seleucus from Media (where he was stationed) with...

son of Pantauchos, for the safety of Kleomenes, Commander of the Upper Satrapies, of the satraps. ἔτους δξρ᾽, μηνὸς Πανήμου, Ἡρακλῆν Καλλίνικον Ὑάκινθος...

Asia Minor, and Mesopotamia. Little is known about the economy of the Upper Satrapies. Currency plays an increasingly central role under the Seleucids; however...

with him at the Battle of Raphia in 217 BC. Having re-conquered the Upper Satrapies in the previous years, he could draw upon a larger resource base than...

conquest of the eastern provinces of the Macedonian Empire; the so called Upper Satrapies. Ptolemy crosses from Asia Minor into Greece, where he takes possession...

Persian defeat, Barsaentes accompanied Darius III in his flight to the Upper Satrapies. There he conspired against Darius III with other Persian grandees...

improving his own position in Asia. During the winter of 323 BC in the Upper Satrapies, however, specifically in Bactria, a rebellion had begun consisting...

been overstated. Meanwhile, the Seleucid positions in the eastern Upper Satrapies, already weakened by the previous kings' failure to contain the Parthians...

Antiochus IV Epiphanes leaves to the east for an expedition to the Upper Satrapies (Babylonia and Persia). Battle of Emmaus: Judas Maccabeus defeats a...

Syria into Mesopotamia, with the idea of gathering support in the upper satrapies. When Antigonus arrived in Syria, he found out Eumenes had left his...

appointed Nicanor satrap of Hyrcania and Parthia, also known as the upper satrapies, in 315 BC and continued in this office until his death during the...

his court, induced the two brothers to form the plan of causing the upper satrapies of the kingdom to revolt. It seems to have been the secret wish of...

region controlled by the Orontid dynasty (570–201 BC), was one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC that later became an independent...

Antigonus managed to escape and gave up on the idea of reconquering the upper satrapies leaving the east to Seleucus. Richard A. Billows, Antigonos the One-Eyed...

satrap of Media and the adjoining provinces, commonly termed the "Upper Satrapies", which he continued to hold until 311 BCE when Seleucus made himself...

manages to take it by storm. Nicanor, Antigonus' commander of the Upper Satrapies, marches against Seleucus from Media (where he was stationed) with...

Antigonus managed to escape and gave up on the idea of reconquering the upper satrapies, leaving the east to Seleucus. Richard A. Billows, Antigonos the One-Eyed...

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...

or Parthian excursion was defeated decisively by the viceroy of the Upper Satrapies, Kleomenes, in the summer of 148, his victory being commemorated by...

following years, Tlepolemus joined a coalition formed by governors of Upper Satrapies with the purpose of fighting Peithon, later assisting Eumenes in his...

Eisenbrauns. p. 215. ISBN 9781575061207. electricpulp.com. "ACHAEMENID SATRAPIES – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2017-09-30...

conquest of the eastern provinces of the Macedonian Empire; the so called Upper Satrapies. Ptolemy crosses from Asia Minor into Greece, where he takes possession...

Achaemenid Empire in Upper Mesopotamia from 539 to 330 BC as a military protectorate state. Although sometimes regarded as a satrapy, Achaemenid royal inscriptions...

scholars as Transeuphratia (French: Transeuphratène). Functioning as a satrapy, it was originally administered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire before being...

Olmstead's Hindush is the Punjāb east of the Indus - as his first Map, "Satrapies of the Persian Empire ", makes perfectly clear. M. A. Dandamaev. "A Political...