📚 noun • entry_id 47420
satrapy
/ˈseɪtɹəpi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
satrapía
The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of West Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sasanian Empire and Hellenistic empires).
1951, W. W. Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, Digital printing 2010, page 1, The Seleucid empire in its turn was still, in outward sha…
Several, which occur as one Satrapy in the system given by Herodotus, are given in the lists as distinct provinces.
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