satrapy

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σατραπεία (satrapeía).

satrapy (plural satrapys or satrapies)

1. (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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