The various kingdoms which composed this empire, once independent, yielded to the conquerors who reigned at Babylon, or Nineveh, or Persepolis, and formed satrapies paying tribute to the great king.
The satrapies were generally given to members of the royal family, or to great nobles connected with it by marriage.
His enumeration of twenty satrapies comprises India and omits Thrace, which enables us to refer the drawing up of his list to a period before the Scythian campaign, viz.
To understand how well established was the custom of bestowing satrapies on those only who were allied by marriage to the royal house, it is sufficient to recall the fact that, later on, under Xerxes I.
The list of Assyrian and Persian satrapies included all those lands which we now call the hinterland of India, and which in Alexander's time must have been absolutely Persianized.
The outlying satrapies of the Persian Empire could never have been added one by one to that mighty power without definite knowledge of the way to reach them.
Proofs that the division into satrapies was originally a mere arrangement for the civil government and collection of taxes, distinct from military power.
I know not; but I presume that when the Persian king knows that the Eretrian is leagued against him with the other Captains of Hellas, he will assign the Satrapies to another.
Pausanias says that the Eretrian could not more show his faith to Hellas, than by resigning Eastern satrapies so vast.
All Persia's gold, all the great king's Satrapies could not medize my Lysander.
On May 29th he withdrew Burgos and Valladolid from Joseph's control, and divided the greater part of Spain for military and administrative purposes into districts that were French satrapies in all but name.
The riches of satrapies were in the rubies and topazes on sword sheath and baldric.
Glaucon knew now it was not a vain boast that for ten years the East had been arming against Hellas, that the whole power of the twenty satrapies would be flung as one thunderbolt upon devoted Greece.
I would not have the satrapies know how certain bright eyes in the seraglio can make the son of Darius play the fool.
Can I honour the lord of all the satrapies above the highest god?
All in the middle is now apportioned in satrapies among my brother’s friends; all, if we are victorious, will come to be distributed among mine.
He had augmented his army, and was contemplating more extensive schemes of operations against the Persian satrapies in Asia Minor.
The satrapy of the Ionians revolted after the battle of Mycale; in the Peloponnesian war, we find, as in the time of Cyrus, two satrapies in hither Asia, Sardis and Dascyleum.
Herodotus (3, 89) places this arrangement into satrapiesimmediately after the accession.
It paid 360 talents of gold, the highest tax among all the satrapies of the kingdom.
These are the 20 satrapies of the kingdom who are brought before the king by the officers, and present their tribute.
We can fix with tolerable exactness the date at which Sandrakottos destroyed the satrapies established in the land of the Indus by Alexander.
By the successor of Darius the soldiers in both satrapies were summoned to take part in the campaign against Hellas.
In the division of the satrapies made by Antipater at Triparadeisus in the year 321 B.
The officer who commanded the troops nearly always filled the post of governor and united several satrapies under one rule.
As the very division into provinces was for the purpose of collecting with greater accuracy the tribute, the political administration of the satrapies connected therewith was not matured at once, but gradually developed.
They could be taken from any class in the nation, from the poor as well as the rich, from foreigners as well as Persians; but it was customary to confer the most important satrapies on persons united by blood or marriage to the royal family.
This huge province was divided in the fifth century into the satrapies of Greater Phrygia, Lesser Phrygia, and Cappadocia.
The onlysatrapies in which money was coined, before Alexander, are the following.
The satrapies and crowns are the things to which you would help me.
Thus was the rebellion of Molon and the rising in the upper Satrapies suppressed and quieted.
Mentor became general of the maritime provinces, suppressed the rebels, and sent Greek mercenaries to the king, while Bagoas administered the upper satrapies and gained such power that he was the real master of the kingdom (Diod.
Whether Bactria formed part of the Median empire, we do not know; but it was subjugated by Cyrus and from then formed one of the satrapies of the Persian empire.
The institutions of provincial government are wittingly minimized, because of recent trouble with provincial satrapies and the dangerously centrifugal effect of provincial autonomism.
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