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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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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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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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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Classical Anatolia (section Other satrapies)
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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Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt (redirect from First Egyptian Satrapy)
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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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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(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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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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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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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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Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt (redirect from Second Egyptian Satrapy)
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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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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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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ensuing division of the empire in the Partition of Babylon (323 BC), Cappadocia and Paphlagonia were assigned to Eumenes; but as they were not yet subdued...
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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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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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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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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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Taxation districts of the Achaemenid Empire (redirect from District XIX (satrapy))
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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Several satrapies were founded by the Achaemenid empire in the Indian subcontinent, including; Gandāra satrapy Hindush satrapy Sattagydia satrapy Other...
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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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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...
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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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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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Cappadocian calendar (category Achaemenid Cappadocia)
was evidently devised at a time when Cappadocia, a historical region in present-day Turkey, was a province (satrapy) of the Achaemenid Empire. The calendar...
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