satrapy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek σατραπεία (satrapeía).
Noun
[edit]satrapy (plural satrapys or satrapies)
- (historical) The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of Western Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sassanian Empire and Hellenistic empires).
- 1864, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford, John Henry and James Parker, page 413:
- Several, which occur as one Satrapy in the system given by Herodotus, are given in the lists as distinct provinces.
- 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 shape, very much the empire of Persia under different rulers; the great satrapies still remained, their military nature emphasised by the governor of a satrapy being no longer called satrap but strategos, 'general'.
- 2013, Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, University of Toronto Press, page 30:
- A satrapy′s borders were generally the same as those of the previously independent kingdom, with the satrap stationed in the old capital. […] The Great King expected two things from the satrapies: a regular supply of taxes (called "tribute" because it underlined the satrapy′s subordination to the king) and units for the Persian army when needed.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]territory governed by a satrap
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