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Satrapy

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, satrapy means: A province governed by a satrap, especially within the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

In Turkish: satraplık

How it is used

Use for the historical administrative unit; do not treat every ancient province as a satrapy.

Example sentences

  1. The inscription lists payments expected from each satrapy.

    The province serves as an administrative unit for obligations.

  2. The governor's authority extended across a satrapy with several major towns.

    A satrapy is a territorial jurisdiction, not a single city.

Common collocations

  • govern a satrapy
  • Achaemenid satrapy
  • empireA large state or group of territories and peoples ruled by a single supreme authority, often an emperor or sultan, and usually built through conquest.
  • ancientBelonging to the very distant past, especially to the period before the end of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD.

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