successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires. A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap. A satrap served as a viceroy to...

Maka (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎣 Maka-) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire and later a satrapy of the Parthian and Sassanian empires (known as Mazun)...

Lydia (satrapy) 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda The Satrapy of Lydia, known as Sparda in Old Persian (Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda), was an administrative...

Libya 𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹, Putāya Libya (Old Persian: 𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹 Putāya) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire, that corresponded to the current region of eastern...

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...

lost one third of his men. Several scholars have argued that the Persian satrapy Maka is identical to Gedrosia (which is a Greek name). One argument is...

The Satrapy of Armenia (Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 Armina or 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴𐎹 Arminiya), a region controlled by the Orontid dynasty (570–201 BC), was one of...

known as the First Egyptian Satrapy. Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt (343–332 BCE), also known as the Second Egyptian Satrapy. In the 6th century BCE, Persian...

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

The Upper Satrapies (Greek: ἄνω σατραπεῖαι, romanized: anō satrapeiai) is a collective term used in the Hellenistic period to refer to the eastern, Iranian-populated...

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

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...

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

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...

Kush (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐏁𐎠𐎹) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. The territory was conquered from the Kingdom of Kush. Herodotus mentioned an invasion...

script. Skudra (Old Persian: 𐎿𐎤𐎢𐎭𐎼, romanized: Skudra) was a province (satrapy) of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in Europe between 510s BC and 479 BC...

The Sagartians (Latin: Sagartii; Ancient Greek: Σαγάρτιοι Sagártioi; Old Persian: 𐎠𐎿𐎥𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 Asagartiya "Sagartian"; Elamite: 𒀾𒐼𒋼𒀀𒋾𒅀 Aš-šá-kar-ti-ia...

Satrapy of the Sassanid Empire...

Bactria (satrapy) Bactria (Old Persian: 𐎲𐎠𐎧𐎫𐎼𐎡𐏁 Bāxtriš) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. It was conquered between 545–540 BC by Cyrus the...

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

Adurbadagan (Middle Persian: Ādurbādagān/Āδarbāyagān, Parthian: Āturpātākān) was a northwestern province in the Sasanian Empire, almost corresponding to...

allowed a certain amount of regional autonomy in the form of the satrapy system. A satrapy was an administrative unit, usually organized on a geographical...

Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐎹 hUvārazmiya, 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 hUvārazmiš) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia. Chorasmia had become part of the Achaemenid...

Makedonija, or Makedoniya may also refer to: Achaemenid Macedonia, a satrapy of Achaemenid Empire Diocese of Macedonia, a late Roman administrative...

present-day Iranian Azerbaijan, Iranian Kurdistan and western Tabaristan. As a satrapy under Achaemenid rule, it would eventually encompass a wider region, stretching...

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...

𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹, Arabāya Arabia (Old Persian cuneiform: 𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹, Arabāya) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire. Achaemenid Arabia corresponded to...

ISBN 978-0-207-12687-1. ... that he annexed parts of India as Hindush, the twentieth satrapy of his empire. Sethna, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy (2000). Problems of Ancient...

Spahan, also known as Parthau was a Sasanian province in Late Antiquity, that lay within central Iran, almost corresponding to the present-day Isfahan...

Arachōsíā), or Harauvatis (Old Persian: 𐏃𐎼𐎢𐎺𐎫𐎡𐏁 Harauvatiš), was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. Mainly centred around the Arghandab River, a...