satrapy

satrapy englanniksi

1. The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Empire and Hellenistic empires).

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1864|author=Edward Bouverie Pusey|title=Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford|publisher=John Henry and James Parker|pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UwUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA413&dq=%22satrapy%22%7C%22satrapies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj36IfShI7jAhUDrZ4KHdfpCoIQ6AEIUDAIv=onepage&q=%22satrapy%22%7C%22satrapies%22&f=false|page=413

3. 1951, (w), ''The Greeks in Bactria and India'', (w), 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'.

4. {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Michael Burger|title=The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century|publisher=University of Toronto Press|pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=91jpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30&dq=%22satrapy%22%7C%22satrapies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj36IfShI7jAhUDrZ4KHdfpCoIQ6AEIpwEwFwv=onepage&q=%22satrapy%22%7C%22satrapies%22&f=false|page=30