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Definition of Satrapy
1. n. The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
Definition of Satrapy
1. Noun. The territory governed by a satrap. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Satrapy
1. the territory of a satrap [n -PIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Satrapy
Literary usage of Satrapy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Herodotus by Herodotus (1830)
"The eighth satrapy furnished three hundred talents, and consisted of Susa and the
... Babylon and the other parts of Assyria constituted the ninth satrapy, ..."
2. Notes on Herodotus: Original and Selected from the Best Commentators by Dawson William Turner (1857)
"When our author extends this satrapy to the Euxine, he appears to contradict ...
X.—The provinces of this satrapy are all contiguous, and form one of the ..."
3. The Geography of Herodotus ...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"Extent of the satrapy: probably included the Chalybes and ... Identification of
this satrapy with ..."
4. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus (1824)
"... so much is cut off as seems necessary. k This satrapy must have extended along
the south-east coast of the Euxine, and was confined on the inland, ..."
5. Herodotus by Herodotus (1812)
"The tribute levied from the fifth satrapy was three hundred and fifty talents.
... The same satrapy, moreover, included all Phoenicia, the Syrian Palestine ..."
6. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus: Translated from the Text of by Herodotus, Thomas Gaisford, Peter Edmund Laurent (1846)
"95 constituted the twentieth satrapy. Commuting the Babylonian standard talent
into the Eubo'ic talent, the silver amounts to nine ..."
7. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"Herodotus speaks of them as contained in the 16th satrapy of Darius. In the final
struggle between the Greeks and Persians, they remained faithful to the ..."
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