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    Achaemenid Cappadocia Cappadocia (from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 Katpatuka) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire located in Anatolia (modern-day...
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    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...
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    Minor (present-day Turkey). It developed from the former Achaemenid satrapy of Cappadocia, and it was founded by its last satrap, Ariarathes (later Ariarathes...
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  • can also refer to: Gregory of Cappadocia, installed as Patriarch of Alexandria against Saint Athanasius Cappadocia (satrapy), a province of the Achaemenid...
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    last Achaemenid Persian governor (satrap) of the province (satrapy) of Northern Cappadocia, serving from the 340s BC to 331 BC. He led defensive efforts...
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  • Gergere, Turkey, an ancient town lying on the eastern frontier of the Cappadocia satrapy Gergeri, Crete, Greece, named after the Anatolian Gergere, during...
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  • lists the Achaemenid satraps of Cappadocia, an ancient region in central Anatolia. The Satrapy of Capadocia was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire...
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    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...
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    Minor Satrapies. The main administrative units in Anatolia were the Great Satrapy of Sardis (Sparda/Lydia) in the west, Main satrapy of Cappadocia centrally...
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    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...
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    aid Eumenes in securing his satrapy. Perdiccas probably gave Eumenes 5000 talents of gold for the reconquest of Cappadocia, allowing Eumenes to hire mercenaries...
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    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....
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    (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...
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    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...
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    Colchis (redirect from Satrapy of Colchis)
    Moschi, and Marres) were incorporated into Persia and formed the 19th satrapy, while the northern tribes submitted "voluntarily" and had to send to the...
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    interior. The region of Pontus was originally part of the Persian satrapy of Cappadocia (Katpatuka). The Persian dynasty which was to found this kingdom...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Perdiccas, who installed him in Cappadocia by defeating and killing Ariarathes in the summer of 322. Eumenes reorganized his satrapy and appointed his supporters...
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    Cilicia (redirect from Cilicia (satrapy))
    Cilicia. The duties of the satrap including maintaining peace within his satrapy to ensure agriculture could be conducted and tribute could be produced...
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    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...
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    History portal Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley Achaemenid Empire Satrapies Herodotus Book III, 89-95 Archibald, Zosia; Davies, John K.; Gabrielsen...
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    Lesser/Hellespontine Phrygia, Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, Lydia and Cilicia All sources agree on the distribution of these satrapies to, respectively, Antigonus...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Several satrapies were founded by the Achaemenid empire in the Indian subcontinent, including; Gandāra satrapy Hindush satrapy Sattagydia satrapy Other...
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    Asian satrapies, Alexander was finally free to turn his attention to the Indian subcontinent. Alexander invited all the chieftains of the former satrapy of...
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    the reign of Darius I in the 6th century BC, as part of the Satrapy of Pontus and Cappadocia. The Persian presence was erased by the armies of Alexander...
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  • Cappadocia and commander in chief of the Achaemenian forces in Asia Minor in place of Tissaphernes. Tissaphernes' influence is limited to the satrapy...
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