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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8" title="ساتراب – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ساتراب" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1trapa" title="Sátrapa – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Sátrapa" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AA" title="সত্রপ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সত্রপ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF" title="Сатрап – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Сатрап" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF" title="Сатрап – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сатрап" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF" title="Сатрап – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Сатрап" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A0trapa" title="Sàtrapa – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sàtrapa" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturapu" title="Saturapu – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Saturapu" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satraap" title="Satraap – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Satraap" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B7%CF%82" title="Σατράπης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σατράπης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1trapa" title="Sátrapa – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sátrapa" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapa" title="Satrapa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Satrapa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BE" title="ساتراپ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ساتراپ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrape" title="Satrape – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Satrape" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1trapa" title="Sátrapa – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Sátrapa" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%82%AC%ED%8A%B8%EB%9D%BC%ED%94%84" title="사트라프 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="사트라프" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A1%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BA" title="Սատրապ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սատրապ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA" title="सात्राप – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सात्राप" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapo" title="Satrapo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Satrapo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapo" title="Satrapo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Satrapo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A9%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%9F" title="אחשדרפן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אחשדרפן" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapes" title="Satrapes – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Satrapes" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satraps" title="Satraps – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Satraps" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapas" title="Satrapas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Satrapas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapa" title="Satrapa – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Satrapa" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF" title="Сатрап – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Сатрап" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapa" title="Satrapa – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Satrapa" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satraap" title="Satraap – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Satraap" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%97" title="サトラップ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サトラップ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapa" title="Satrapa – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Satrapa" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BE%DB%8C" title="ساتراپی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ساتراپی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapa_(Persja)" title="Satrapa (Persja) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Satrapa (Persja)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1trapa" title="Sátrapa – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sátrapa" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF" title="Сатрап – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Сатрап" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BE" title="ساتراپ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ساتراپ" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF" title="Сатрап – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Сатрап" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satraappi" title="Satraappi – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Satraappi" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapa" title="Satrapa – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Satrapa" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81" title="సాత్రపాలు – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="సాత్రపాలు" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%9B" title="เซแทร็ป – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เซแทร็ป" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Satrap" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrapa_(gobernador)" title="Satrapa (gobernador) – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Satrapa (gobernador)" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%80%BB%E7%9D%A3%EF%BC%88%E5%8F%A4%E6%B3%A2%E6%96%AF%EF%BC%89" title="总督（古波斯） – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="总督（古波斯）" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" 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<p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Achaemenid_Satrap_Asia_Minor_end_of_6th_century_BCE.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Achaemenid_Satrap_Asia_Minor_end_of_6th_century_BCE.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="290" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="290" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Herakleia_head" title="Herakleia head">Herakleia head</a>, probable portrait of a <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Persian (Achaemenid) Empire</a> Satrap of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a>, end of 6th century BCE, probably under <a href="/wiki/Darius_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Darius I">Darius I</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>satrap</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span></span>/</a></span></span>) was a governor of the <a href="/wiki/Province" title="Province">provinces</a> of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Median_kingdom" title="Median kingdom">Median</a> and <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Persian (Achaemenid) Empires</a> and in several of their successors, such as in the <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Sasanian Empire</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic</a> empires.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <b>satrapy</b> is the territory governed by a satrap. </p><p>A satrap served as a <a href="/wiki/Viceroy" title="Viceroy">viceroy</a> to the king, though with considerable autonomy. The word came to suggest tyranny or ostentatious splendour,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its modern usage is a <a href="/wiki/Pejorative" title="Pejorative">pejorative</a> and refers to any subordinate or local ruler, usually with unfavourable connotations of corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The word <span title="English-language text"><span lang="en"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satrap" class="extiw" title="wikt:satrap">satrap</a></span></span> is derived via Latin <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">satrapes</i></span> from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Greek</a> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">satrápes</i></span> (<span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B7%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:σατράπης">σατράπης</a></span>), itself borrowed from an <a href="/wiki/Old_Iranian_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Iranian languages">Old Iranian</a> <span title="Iranian languages romanization"><i lang="ira-Latn">*khshathra-pa</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Old_Persian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Persian language">Old Persian</a>, which was the native language of the Achaemenids, it is recorded as <span title="Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)-language romanization"><i lang="peo-Latn">khshathapavan</i></span> (<span lang="peo"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8E%A7%F0%90%8F%81%F0%90%8F%82%F0%90%8E%B1%F0%90%8E%A0%F0%90%8E%BA%F0%90%8E%A0#Old_Persian" class="extiw" title="wikt:𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠">𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠</a></span>, literally "protector of the province"). The <a href="/wiki/Median_language" title="Median language">Median</a> form is reconstructed as <span title="Median-language romanization"><i lang="xme-Latn">*khshathrapavan-</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> cognate is <span title="Sanskrit-language romanization"><i lang="sa-Latn">kshatrapa</i></span> (<span lang="sa"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA#Sanskrit" class="extiw" title="wikt:क्षत्रप">क्षत्रप</a></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew" title="Biblical Hebrew">Biblical Hebrew</a> form is <span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">aḥashdarpan</i></span> <span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he" dir="rtl"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A9%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%9F" class="extiw" title="wikt:אחשדרפן">אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפָּן</a></span></span>, as found in Esther 3:12.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Parthian_language" title="Parthian language">Parthian</a> (language of the <a href="/wiki/Arsacid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Arsacid Empire">Arsacid Empire</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Middle_Persian" title="Middle Persian">Middle Persian</a> (the language of the <a href="/wiki/Sassanian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Sassanian Empire">Sassanian Empire</a>), it is recorded in the forms <span title="Parthian-language romanization"><i lang="xpr-Latn">šahrab</i></span> and <span title="Middle Persian-language romanization"><i lang="pal-Latn">šasab</i></span>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">modern Persian</a> the descendant of <span title="Median-language romanization"><i lang="xme-Latn">*khshathrapavan</i></span> is <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahrbān</i></span> (<span title="Persian-language text"><span lang="fa" dir="rtl">شهربان</span></span>), but the components have undergone <a href="/wiki/Semantic_shift" class="mw-redirect" title="Semantic shift">semantic shift</a> so the word now means "town keeper" (<span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahr</i></span> <span lang="fa"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1#Persian" class="extiw" title="wikt:شهر">شهر</a></span> meaning "town" + <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">bān</i></span> <span lang="fa"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86#Persian" class="extiw" title="wikt:بان">بان</a></span> meaning "keeper").<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medo-Persian">Medo-Persian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Medo-Persian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Achaemenid_Imperial_Satraps_(English_Version).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Map_of_Achaemenid_Imperial_Satraps_%28English_Version%29.png/350px-Map_of_Achaemenid_Imperial_Satraps_%28English_Version%29.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Map_of_Achaemenid_Imperial_Satraps_%28English_Version%29.png/525px-Map_of_Achaemenid_Imperial_Satraps_%28English_Version%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Map_of_Achaemenid_Imperial_Satraps_%28English_Version%29.png/700px-Map_of_Achaemenid_Imperial_Satraps_%28English_Version%29.png 2x" data-file-width="3308" data-file-height="1648" /></a><figcaption>Satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karaburun_Elmali_dignitary_470_BCE.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Karaburun_Elmali_dignitary_470_BCE.jpg/220px-Karaburun_Elmali_dignitary_470_BCE.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Karaburun_Elmali_dignitary_470_BCE.jpg/330px-Karaburun_Elmali_dignitary_470_BCE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Karaburun_Elmali_dignitary_470_BCE.jpg/440px-Karaburun_Elmali_dignitary_470_BCE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1186" data-file-height="761" /></a><figcaption>A dignitary of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a> in Achaemenid style, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 475 BC</span>; Karaburun tomb near <a href="/wiki/Elmal%C4%B1" title="Elmalı">Elmalı</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Although the first large-scale use of satrapies, or provinces, originates from the inception of the <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Achaemenid Empire</a> under <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a>, beginning at around 530<span class="nowrap"> </span>BCE, provincial organization actually originated during the <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Median</a> era from at least 648<span class="nowrap"> </span>BCE. </p><p>Up to the time of the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Media</a> by Cyrus the Great, emperors ruled the lands they conquered through <a href="/wiki/Client_king" class="mw-redirect" title="Client king">client kings</a> and governors. The main difference was that in Persian culture the concept of kingship was indivisible from divinity: divine authority validated the <a href="/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings" title="Divine right of kings">divine right of kings</a>. The twenty-six satraps established by Cyrus were never kings, but <a href="/wiki/Viceroy" title="Viceroy">viceroys</a> ruling in the king's name, although in political reality many took advantage of any opportunity to carve themselves an independent power base. <a href="/wiki/Darius_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Darius I">Darius the Great</a> gave the satrapies a definitive organization, increased their number to thirty-six, and fixed their annual tribute (<a href="/wiki/Behistun_inscription" class="mw-redirect" title="Behistun inscription">Behistun inscription</a>). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IONIA,_Magnesia_ad_Maeandrum._Themistokles._Circa_465-459_BC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/IONIA%2C_Magnesia_ad_Maeandrum._Themistokles._Circa_465-459_BC.jpg/220px-IONIA%2C_Magnesia_ad_Maeandrum._Themistokles._Circa_465-459_BC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/IONIA%2C_Magnesia_ad_Maeandrum._Themistokles._Circa_465-459_BC.jpg/330px-IONIA%2C_Magnesia_ad_Maeandrum._Themistokles._Circa_465-459_BC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/IONIA%2C_Magnesia_ad_Maeandrum._Themistokles._Circa_465-459_BC.jpg/440px-IONIA%2C_Magnesia_ad_Maeandrum._Themistokles._Circa_465-459_BC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="422" /></a><figcaption>Coin of <a href="/wiki/Themistocles" title="Themistocles">Themistocles</a>, a former Athenian general, as <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Achaemenid Empire</a> Satrap of <a href="/wiki/Magnesia_on_the_Meander" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnesia on the Meander">Magnesia</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 465–459 BC</span></figcaption></figure> <p>The satrap was in charge of the land that he owned as an administrator, and found himself surrounded by an all-but-royal court; he collected the taxes, controlled the local officials and the subject tribes and cities, and was the supreme judge of the province before whose "chair" (<i>Nehemiah</i><span class="nowrap"> </span>3:7) every civil and criminal case could be brought. He was responsible for the safety of the roads (cf.<span class="nowrap"> </span>Xenophon), and had to put down brigands and rebels. </p><p>He was assisted by a council of Persians, to which also provincials were admitted and which was controlled by a royal secretary and emissaries of the king, especially the "eye of the king", who made an annual inspection and exercised permanent control. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CILICIA,_Mallos._Tiribazos._Satrap_of_Lydia,_388-380_BC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/CILICIA%2C_Mallos._Tiribazos._Satrap_of_Lydia%2C_388-380_BC.jpg/220px-CILICIA%2C_Mallos._Tiribazos._Satrap_of_Lydia%2C_388-380_BC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/CILICIA%2C_Mallos._Tiribazos._Satrap_of_Lydia%2C_388-380_BC.jpg/330px-CILICIA%2C_Mallos._Tiribazos._Satrap_of_Lydia%2C_388-380_BC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/CILICIA%2C_Mallos._Tiribazos._Satrap_of_Lydia%2C_388-380_BC.jpg/440px-CILICIA%2C_Mallos._Tiribazos._Satrap_of_Lydia%2C_388-380_BC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="403" /></a><figcaption>Coinage of <a href="/wiki/Tiribazos" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiribazos">Tiribazos</a>, Satrap of <a href="/wiki/Lydia_(satrapy)" title="Lydia (satrapy)">Achaemenid Lydia</a>, 388–380 BC</figcaption></figure> <p>There were further checks on the power of each satrap: besides his secretarial scribe, his chief financial official (Old Persian <i>ganzabara</i>) and the general in charge of the regular army of his province and of the fortresses were independent of him and periodically reported directly to the <i>shah</i>, in person. The satrap was allowed to have troops in his own service. </p><p>The great satrapies (provinces) were often divided into smaller districts, the governors of which were also called satraps and (by Greco-Roman authors) also called <i>hyparchs</i> (actually <i>Hyparkhos</i> in Greek, 'vice-regents').<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The distribution of the great satrapies was changed repeatedly, and often two of them were given to the same man. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Achaemenid_Satrap_Autophradates_with_visitors_Payava_tomb.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Achaemenid_Satrap_Autophradates_with_visitors_Payava_tomb.jpg/220px-Achaemenid_Satrap_Autophradates_with_visitors_Payava_tomb.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Achaemenid_Satrap_Autophradates_with_visitors_Payava_tomb.jpg/330px-Achaemenid_Satrap_Autophradates_with_visitors_Payava_tomb.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Achaemenid_Satrap_Autophradates_with_visitors_Payava_tomb.jpg/440px-Achaemenid_Satrap_Autophradates_with_visitors_Payava_tomb.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3423" data-file-height="1766" /></a><figcaption>Achaemenid Satrap <a href="/wiki/Autophradates" title="Autophradates">Autophradates</a> receiving visitors, on the <a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Payava" title="Tomb of Payava">Tomb of Payava</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 380 BC</span></figcaption></figure> <p>As the provinces were the result of consecutive conquests (the homeland had a special status, exempt from provincial tribute), both primary and sub-satrapies were often defined by former states and/or ethno-religious identity. One of the keys to the Achaemenid success was their open attitude to the culture and religion of the conquered people, so the Persian culture was the one most affected as the Great King endeavoured to meld elements from all his subjects into a new imperial style, especially at his capital, <a href="/wiki/Persepolis" title="Persepolis">Persepolis</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Satrap_sarcophagus_banquet_scene.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Satrap_sarcophagus_banquet_scene.jpg/220px-Satrap_sarcophagus_banquet_scene.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Satrap_sarcophagus_banquet_scene.jpg/330px-Satrap_sarcophagus_banquet_scene.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Satrap_sarcophagus_banquet_scene.jpg/440px-Satrap_sarcophagus_banquet_scene.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2305" data-file-height="1281" /></a><figcaption>Banquet scene of a Satrap, on the "Sarcophagus of the Satrap", <a href="/wiki/Sidon" title="Sidon">Sidon</a>, 4th century BC</figcaption></figure> <p>Whenever central authority in the empire weakened, the satrap often enjoyed practical independence, especially as it became customary to appoint him also as general-in-chief of the army district, contrary to the original rule. "When his office became hereditary, the threat to the central authority could not be ignored" (Olmstead). Rebellions of satraps became frequent from the middle of the 5th<span class="nowrap"> </span>century BCE. <a href="/wiki/Darius_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Darius I">Darius I</a> struggled with widespread rebellions in the satrapies, and under <a href="/wiki/Artaxerxes_II" title="Artaxerxes II">Artaxerxes II</a> occasionally the greater parts of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a> and Syria were in open rebellion (<a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Satraps" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolt of the Satraps">Revolt of the Satraps</a>). </p><p>The last great rebellions were put down by <a href="/wiki/Artaxerxes_III" title="Artaxerxes III">Artaxerxes III</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seleucid">Seleucid</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Seleucid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Babylon" title="Partition of Babylon">Partition of Babylon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Triparadisus" title="Partition of Triparadisus">Partition of Triparadisus</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diadochi_satraps_babylon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Diadochi_satraps_babylon.png/220px-Diadochi_satraps_babylon.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Diadochi_satraps_babylon.png/330px-Diadochi_satraps_babylon.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Diadochi_satraps_babylon.png/440px-Diadochi_satraps_babylon.png 2x" data-file-width="2590" data-file-height="1353" /></a><figcaption>The satraps appointed by Alexander the Great during his campaign</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baydad.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Baydad.jpg/220px-Baydad.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Baydad.jpg/330px-Baydad.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Baydad.jpg/440px-Baydad.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="248" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bagadates_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagadates I">Bagadates I</a> (Minted 290–280 BC), the first indigenous satrap to be appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The satrapic administration and title were retained—even for Greco-Macedonian incumbents—by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a>, who conquered the Achaemenid Empire, and by his successors, the <a href="/wiki/Diadochi" title="Diadochi">Diadochi</a> (and their dynasties) who carved it up, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a>, where the satrap generally was designated as <i><a href="/wiki/Strategos" title="Strategos">strategos</a></i> (in other words, military generals); but their provinces were much smaller than under the Persians. They would ultimately be replaced by conquering empires, especially the <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthians</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parthian_and_Sassanian">Parthian and Sassanian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Parthian and Sassanian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthian Empire</a>, the king's power rested on the support of noble families, who ruled large estates and supplied soldiers and tribute to the king. City-states within the empire enjoyed a degree of self-government, and paid tribute to the king. Administration of the <a href="/wiki/Sassanid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Sassanid Empire">Sassanid Empire</a> was considerably more centralized than that of the Parthian Empire; the semi-independent kingdoms and self-governing city states of the Parthian Empire were replaced with a system of "royal cities" which served as the seats of centrally appointed governors called <i>shahrabs</i> as well as the location of military garrisons. <i>Shahrabs</i> ruled both the city and the surrounding rural districts. Exceptionally, the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> also adopted the title "satrap" for the semi-autonomous princes that governed one of its <a href="/wiki/Roman_Armenia" title="Roman Armenia">Armenian provinces</a>, the <i>Satrapiae</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indian">Indian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Indian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Northern_Satraps" title="Northern Satraps">Northern Satraps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_Satraps" title="Western Satraps">Western Satraps</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nahapana.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Nahapana.jpg/220px-Nahapana.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Nahapana.jpg/330px-Nahapana.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Nahapana.jpg/440px-Nahapana.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="390" /></a><figcaption>Coin of "<a href="/wiki/Western_satraps" class="mw-redirect" title="Western satraps">Western Satrap</a>" <a href="/wiki/Nahapana" title="Nahapana">Nahapana</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 120 CE</span></figcaption></figure> <p>The Western Satraps or Kshatrapas (35–405 CE) of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a> were <a href="/wiki/Indo-Scythian" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Scythian">Saka</a> rulers in the western and central part of the <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> region of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Saurashtra_(region)" title="Saurashtra (region)">Saurashtra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malwa" title="Malwa">Malwa</a> regions of western <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>. They were contemporaneous with the <a href="/wiki/Kushan_Empire" title="Kushan Empire">Kushans</a>, who ruled the northern part of the subcontinent from the area of <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> and were possibly their overlords, and with the <a href="/wiki/Satavahana" class="mw-redirect" title="Satavahana">Satavahana</a>, who ruled in central India to their south and east and the <a href="/wiki/Kushan_Empire" title="Kushan Empire">Kushan</a> state to their immediate west. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_districts_of_the_Achaemenid_Empire" title="Taxation districts of the Achaemenid Empire">Taxation districts of the Achaemenid Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orontid_dynasty" title="Orontid dynasty">Orontid dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzerainty" title="Suzerainty">Suzerainty</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCahnGerin1988" class="citation journal cs1">Cahn, Herbert A.; Gerin, Dominique (1988). 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"šasab". <i>A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=%C5%A1asab&rft.btitle=A+Concise+Pahlavi+Dictionary&rft.date=1971&rft.aulast=MacKenzie&rft.aufirst=David+Neil&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASatrap" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAndré-Salvini2005" class="citation book cs1">André-Salvini, Béatrice (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kJnaKu9DdNEC&pg=PA46"><i>Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia</i></a>. University of California Press. p. 46. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-24731-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-24731-4"><bdi>978-0-520-24731-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Forgotten+Empire%3A+The+World+of+Ancient+Persia&rft.pages=46&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-520-24731-4&rft.aulast=Andr%C3%A9-Salvini&rft.aufirst=B%C3%A9atrice&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkJnaKu9DdNEC%26pg%3DPA46&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASatrap" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tuplin, Christopher, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/4251207/The%20administration%20of%20the%20Achaemenid%20Empire">"The Administration of the Achaemenid Empire"</a>. In I. Carradice (ed.), <i>Coinage and Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires</i> (1987; Oxford: BAR), 109-166.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMørkholm1991" class="citation book cs1">Mørkholm, Otto (1991). <i>Early Hellenistic Coinage: From the Accession of Alexander to the Peace of Apamea</i>. Cambridge University Press. p. 73f.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Early+Hellenistic+Coinage%3A+From+the+Accession+of+Alexander+to+the+Peace+of+Apamea&rft.pages=73f&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1991&rft.aulast=M%C3%B8rkholm&rft.aufirst=Otto&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASatrap" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCurtisTallisAndré-Salvini2005" class="citation book cs1">Curtis, John; Tallis, Nigel; André-Salvini, Béatrice (2005). <i>Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia</i>. pp. 258–59, fig. 454, Silver tetradrachm of Bagadates.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Forgotten+Empire%3A+The+World+of+Ancient+Persia&rft.pages=pp.+258-59%2C+fig.+454%2C+Silver+tetradrachm+of+Bagadates&rft.date=2005&rft.aulast=Curtis&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Tallis%2C+Nigel&rft.au=Andr%C3%A9-Salvini%2C+B%C3%A9atrice&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASatrap" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Satrap&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAshley2004" class="citation book cs1">Ashley, James R. (2004) [First published 1998]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nTmXOFX-wioC&pg=PA385">"Appendix H: Kings and Satraps"</a>. <i>The Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359–323 B.C</i>. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. pp. <span class="nowrap">385–</span>391. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-1918-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-1918-0"><bdi>978-0-7864-1918-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Appendix+H%3A+Kings+and+Satraps&rft.btitle=The+Macedonian+Empire%3A+The+Era+of+Warfare+Under+Philip+II+and+Alexander+the+Great%2C+359%E2%80%93323+B.C.&rft.place=Jefferson%2C+NC&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E385-%3C%2Fspan%3E391&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-7864-1918-0&rft.aulast=Ashley&rft.aufirst=James+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnTmXOFX-wioC%26pg%3DPA385&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASatrap" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Jacobs, Bruno (1994). <i>Die Satrapienverwaltung im Perserreich zur Zeit Darius’ III.</i> Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Beihefte, vol. B 87. Wiesbaden: Reichert, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-88226-818-2" title="Special:BookSources/3-88226-818-2">3-88226-818-2</a>.</li> <li>Klinkott, Hilmar (2000). <i>Die Satrapienregister der Alexander- und Diadochenzeit.</i> <a href="/wiki/Historia_(classical_antiquity_history_journal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Historia (classical antiquity history journal)">Historia</a> Einzelschriften, vol. 145. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-515-07701-4" title="Special:BookSources/3-515-07701-4">3-515-07701-4</a>.</li> <li>Klinkott, Hilmar (2005). <i>Der Satrap. Ein achaimenidischer Amtsträger und seine Handlungsspielräume.</i> Oikumene. Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, vol. 1. Frankfurt: Verlag Antike, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-938032-02-2" title="Special:BookSources/3-938032-02-2">3-938032-02-2</a></li> <li>A. T. Olmstead, <i>History of the Persian Empire,</i> 1948.</li> <li>Pauly-Wissowa (comprehensive encyclopaedia on Antiquity; in German).</li> <li>Petit, Thierry (1990). <i>Satrapes et Satrapies dans l’empire achéménide de Cyrus le Grand à Xerxès Ier.</i> Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Liège, vol. 254. Genève: Droz, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-251-66254-5" title="Special:BookSources/2-251-66254-5">2-251-66254-5</a>.</li> <li>Robert Dick Wilson. <i>The Book of Daniel: A Discussion of the Historical Questions</i>, 1917. Available on home.earthlink.net.</li> <li>Rüdiger Schmitt, "Der Titel 'Satrap<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", in <i>Studies Palmer</i> ed. Meid (1976), 373–390.</li> <li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Satrap" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Satrap">Satrap</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Municipality</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/City_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="City municipality">City municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_municipality" title="County municipality">County municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct-controlled_municipality" title="Direct-controlled municipality">Direct-controlled municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_municipality" title="District municipality">District municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutral_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Neutral municipality">Neutral municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_municipality" title="Regional municipality">Regional municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resort_municipality" title="Resort municipality">Resort municipality</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_resort_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountain resort municipality">Mountain resort municipality</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rural_municipality" title="Rural municipality">Rural municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Specialized_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Specialized municipality">Specialized municipality</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prefecture" title="Prefecture">Prefecture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_prefecture" title="Autonomous prefecture">Autonomous prefecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subprefecture" title="Subprefecture">Subprefecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super-prefecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Super-prefecture">Super-prefecture</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Praetorian_prefecture" title="Praetorian prefecture">Praetorian prefecture</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Province" title="Province">Province</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_province" title="Autonomous province">Autonomous province</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Overseas_province" title="Overseas province">Overseas province</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Roman province</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Region" title="Region">Region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Administrative region <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_region" title="Special administrative region">Special administrative region</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous region">Autonomous region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_region" title="Capital region">Capital region</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_capital_region" class="mw-redirect" title="National capital region">National capital region</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Development_region" title="Development region">Development region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesoregion_(geography)" title="Mesoregion (geography)">Mesoregion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microregion" title="Microregion">Microregion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas region">Overseas region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subregion_(administrative_division)" title="Subregion (administrative division)">Subregion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Federated_state" title="Federated state">State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-state">Proto-state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">City-state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal state">Federal state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_state_(polity)" title="Free state (polity)">Free state</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">Sovereign state</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Territory" title="Territory">Territory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital territory">Capital territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal capital territory">Federal capital territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="National capital territory">National capital territory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">Dependent territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_territory" title="Federal territory">Federal territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incorporated_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Incorporated territory">Incorporated territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Organized_incorporated_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Organized incorporated territory">Organized incorporated territory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas territory">Overseas territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_territory" title="Union territory">Union territory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">Town</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census_town" title="Census town">Census town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">Market town</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Township" title="Township">Township</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charter_township" title="Charter township">Charter township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">Civil township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paper_township" title="Paper township">Paper township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Survey_township" title="Survey township">Survey township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_township" title="Urban township">Urban township</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unit</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regional_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional unit">Regional unit</a></li> <li>Territorial unit <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_territorial_unit" title="Autonomous territorial unit">Autonomous territorial unit</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Zone</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Economic zone <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone" title="Exclusive economic zone">Exclusive economic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_economic_zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Free economic zone">Free economic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_economic_zone" title="Special economic zone">Special economic zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exclusion_zone" title="Exclusion zone">Exclusion zone</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_exclusion_zone" title="Military exclusion zone">Military exclusion zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_speech_zone" title="Free speech zone">Free speech zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutral_zone_(territorial_entity)" title="Neutral zone (territorial entity)">Neutral zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-administered_zone" title="Self-administered zone">Self-administered zone</a></li> <li>Trade zone <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Free-trade_zone" title="Free-trade zone">Free-trade zone</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other_English_terms39" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other English terms</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Victoria#Alpine_resorts" title="Local government in Victoria">Alpine resort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailiwick" title="Bailiwick">Bailiwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banner_(administrative_division)" title="Banner (administrative division)">Banner</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banners_of_Inner_Mongolia" title="Banners of Inner Mongolia">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Block_(district_subdivision)" title="Block (district subdivision)">Block</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadastre" title="Cadastre">Cadastre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circle_(administrative_division)" title="Circle (administrative division)">Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circuit_(administrative_division)" title="Circuit (administrative division)">Circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">Colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Commune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Condominium_(international_law)" title="Condominium (international law)">Condominium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constituency_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency (administrative division)">Constituency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy" title="Duchy">Duchy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/District_duchy" title="District duchy">District</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elderships_of_Lithuania" title="Elderships of Lithuania">Eldership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirate" title="Emirate">Emirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave" title="Enclave and exclave">Enclave and exclave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela" title="Federal Dependencies of Venezuela">Federal dependency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate" title="Governorate">Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">Hamlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">Manor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_manor" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal manor">Royal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muftiate" title="Muftiate">Muftiate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neighbourhood" title="Neighbourhood">Neighbourhood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_precinct" title="Electoral precinct">Precinct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality" title="Principality">Principality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">Protectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quarter_(urban_subdivision)" title="Quarter (urban subdivision)">Quarter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regencies_and_cities_of_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of regencies and cities of Indonesia">Regency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_republic" title="Autonomous republic">Autonomous republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riding_(division)" title="Riding (division)">Riding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sector_(administrative_division)" title="Sector (administrative division)">Sector</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_sector" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous sector">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shire" title="Shire">Shire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate">Sultanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzerainty" title="Suzerainty">Suzerainty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Townland" title="Townland">Townland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">Village</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_summer_villages_in_Alberta" title="List of summer villages in Alberta">Summer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)" title="Ward (electoral subdivision)">Ward</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agency_(administrative_division)" title="Agency (administrative division)">Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_(county_division)" title="Barony (county division)">Barony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">Burgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exarchate" title="Exarchate">Exarchate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hide_(unit)" title="Hide (unit)">Hide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_division)" title="Hundred (county division)">Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Circle">Imperial Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_(territorial_entity)" class="mw-redirect" title="March (territorial entity)">March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monthon" title="Monthon">Monthon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidency (administrative division)">Presidency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Residency_(administrative_division)" title="Residency (administrative division)">Residency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_diocese" title="Roman diocese">Roman diocese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seat_(administrative_division)" title="Seat (administrative division)">Seat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenth_(administrative_division)" title="Tenth (administrative division)">Tenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithing" title="Tithing">Tithing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty" title="Viceroyalty">Viceroyalty</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Non-English_terms_or_loanwords433" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Non-English terms or loanwords</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amt" title="Amt">Amt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apskritis" class="mw-redirect" title="Apskritis">Apskritis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakhsh" title="Bakhsh">Bakhsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barangay" title="Barangay">Barangay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashki" class="mw-redirect" title="Bashki">Bashki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bezirk" title="Bezirk">Bezirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regierungsbezirk" title="Regierungsbezirk">Regierungsbezirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comarca" title="Comarca">Comarca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comune" title="Comune">Comune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frazione" title="Frazione">Frazione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freguesia" title="Freguesia">Freguesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fu_(administrative_division)" title="Fu (administrative division)">Fu</a></li> <li>Gemeinde <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Austria)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Austria)">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Germany)">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(South_Tyrol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (South Tyrol)">South Tyrol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Switzerland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Switzerland)">Switzerland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeente_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Gemeente (disambiguation)">Gemeente</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gmina" title="Gmina">Gmina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hromada" title="Hromada">Hromada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jude%C8%9B" title="Județ">Județ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kampong" title="Kampong">Kampong</a></li> <li>Kommun/Kunta <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Finland" title="Municipalities of Finland">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Sweden" title="Municipalities of Sweden">Sweden</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A4n" title="Län">Län (Sweden)</a></li> <li>Landskap <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Finland" title="Regions of Finland">Finland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Localit%C3%A0" title="Località">Località</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Finland" title="Regions of Finland">Maakunta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Hungary" title="Counties of Hungary">Megye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muban" title="Muban">Muban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukim" title="Mukim">Mukim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nj%C3%ABsi_administrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Njësi administrative">Njësi administrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obec" title="Obec">Obec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">Oblast</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_oblast" title="Autonomous oblast">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okrug" title="Okrug">Okrug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Iran" title="Provinces of Iran">Ostān</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poblacion" title="Poblacion">Poblacion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purok" title="Purok">Purok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qark" class="mw-redirect" title="Qark">Qark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raion" title="Raion">Raion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savivaldyb%C4%97" class="mw-redirect" title="Savivaldybė">Savivaldybė</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selsoviet" title="Selsoviet">Selsoviet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitio" title="Sitio">Sitio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seni%C5%ABnija" class="mw-redirect" title="Seniūnija">Seniūnija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Iran" title="Counties of Iran">Shahrestān</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sum_(administrative_division)" title="Sum (administrative division)">Sum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sums_of_Inner_Mongolia" title="Sums of Inner Mongolia">China</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%BDsla" title="Sýsla">Sýsla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tehsil" title="Tehsil">Tehsil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban-type_settlement" title="Urban-type settlement">Townlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vingtaine" title="Vingtaine">Vingtaine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Commote" title="Commote">Commote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gau_(territory)" title="Gau (territory)">Gau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heerlijkheid" title="Heerlijkheid">Heerlijkheid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komun%C3%AB" title="Komunë">Komunë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ping" title="Köping">Köping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korale" title="Korale">Korale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Finland" title="Provinces of Finland">Län/Lääni</a></li> <li>Landskap <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden" title="Provinces of Sweden">Sweden</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maalaiskunta" title="Maalaiskunta">Landskommun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maalaiskunta" title="Maalaiskunta">Maalaiskunta</a></li> <li>Nome <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nome_(Egypt)" title="Nome (Egypt)">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_Greece" title="Prefectures of Greece">Greece</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagus" title="Pagus">Pagus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pargana" title="Pargana">Pargana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plas%C4%83" title="Plasă">Plasă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rreth" class="mw-redirect" title="Rreth">Rreth</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Satrapy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socken" title="Socken">Socken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subah" title="Subah">Subah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syssel" title="Syssel">Syssel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhou_(administrative_division)" title="Zhou (administrative division)">Zhou</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Used by ten or more countries or having derived terms. 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title="Teispes">Teispes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_I" title="Cyrus I">Cyrus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambyses_I" title="Cambyses I">Cambyses I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambyses_II" title="Cambyses II">Cambyses II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardiya" title="Bardiya">Bardiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_the_Great" title="Darius the Great">Darius the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xerxes_I" title="Xerxes I">Xerxes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artaxerxes_I" title="Artaxerxes I">Artaxerxes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xerxes_II" title="Xerxes II">Xerxes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sogdianus_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Sogdianus of Persia">Sogdianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_II" title="Darius II">Darius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artaxerxes_II_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Artaxerxes II of Persia">Artaxerxes II Mnemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artaxerxes_III" title="Artaxerxes III">Artaxerxes III Ochus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arses_of_Persia" title="Arses of Persia">Artaxerxes IV Arses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_III" title="Darius III">Darius III Codomannus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessus" title="Bessus">Artaxerxes V Bessus</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="16" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Darius_In_Parse.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Darius_In_Parse.JPG/120px-Darius_In_Parse.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Darius_In_Parse.JPG/180px-Darius_In_Parse.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Darius_In_Parse.JPG/240px-Darius_In_Parse.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1775" data-file-height="3130" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Satraps of <a href="/wiki/Lydia_(satrapy)" title="Lydia (satrapy)">Lydia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tabalus" title="Tabalus">Tabalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazares" title="Mazares">Mazares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpagus" title="Harpagus">Harpagus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oroetus" title="Oroetus">Oroetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagaeus" title="Bagaeus">Bagaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otanes_(son_of_Sisamnes)" title="Otanes (son of Sisamnes)">Otanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artaphernes" title="Artaphernes">Artaphernes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artaphernes_(nephew_of_Darius_I)" title="Artaphernes (nephew of Darius I)">Artaphernes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pissuthnes" title="Pissuthnes">Pissuthnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tissaphernes" title="Tissaphernes">Tissaphernes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Younger" title="Cyrus the Younger">Cyrus the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tissaphernes" title="Tissaphernes">Tissaphernes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithraustes" title="Tithraustes">Tithraustes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiribazus" title="Tiribazus">Tiribazus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Struthas" title="Struthas">Struthas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autophradates" title="Autophradates">Autophradates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spithridates" title="Spithridates">Spithridates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Pharnacid_dynasty" title="Pharnacid dynasty">Satraps</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hellespontine_Phrygia" title="Hellespontine Phrygia">Hellespontine Phrygia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mitrobates" title="Mitrobates">Mitrobates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megabazus" title="Megabazus">Megabazus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megabates" title="Megabates">Megabates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oebares_II" title="Oebares II">Oebares II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artabazos_I_of_Phrygia" title="Artabazos I of Phrygia">Artabazus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnabazus_I" title="Pharnabazus I">Pharnabazus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_II_of_Phrygia" title="Pharnaces II of Phrygia">Pharnaces II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnabazus_II" title="Pharnabazus II">Pharnabazus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_of_Phrygia" title="Ariobarzanes of Phrygia">Ariobarzanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artabazos_II" title="Artabazos II">Artabazus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnabazus_III" title="Pharnabazus III">Pharnabazus III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsites" title="Arsites">Arsites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Achaemenid_satraps_of_Cappadocia" title="List of Achaemenid satraps of Cappadocia">Satraps</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cappadocia_(satrapy)" title="Cappadocia (satrapy)">Cappadocia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Datames" title="Datames">Datames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariamnes" title="Ariamnes">Ariamnes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithrobuzanes" title="Mithrobuzanes">Mithrobuzanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_I_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes I of Cappadocia">Ariarathes I</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Greek Governors of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a> cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miltiades" title="Miltiades">Miltiades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demaratus" title="Demaratus">Demaratus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gongylos" title="Gongylos">Gongylos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurysthenes_(Pergamon)" title="Eurysthenes (Pergamon)">Eurysthenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prokles_(Pergamon)" title="Prokles (Pergamon)">Prokles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Histiaeus" title="Histiaeus">Histiaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristagoras" title="Aristagoras">Aristagoras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themistocles" title="Themistocles">Themistocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archeptolis" title="Archeptolis">Archeptolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aridolis" title="Aridolis">Aridolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_II_(son_of_Bubares)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amyntas II (son of Bubares)">Amyntas II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philiscus_of_Abydos" title="Philiscus of Abydos">Philiscus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Dynasts of <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Kheziga</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kybernis" title="Kybernis">Kybernis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuprlli" title="Kuprlli">Kuprlli</a></li> <li>Harpagus</li> <li>Teththiweibi</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kheriga" title="Kheriga">Kheriga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kherei" title="Kherei">Kherei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arbinas" title="Arbinas">Arbinas</a></li> <li>Artembares</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artumpara" title="Artumpara">Artumpara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithrapata" title="Mithrapata">Mithrapata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pericles,_Dynast_of_Lycia" title="Pericles, Dynast of Lycia">Perikle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Lygdamid_dynasty" title="Lygdamid dynasty">Dynasts</a> of <a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lygdamis_of_Halicarnassus" class="mw-redirect" title="Lygdamis of Halicarnassus">Lygdamis I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemisia_I_of_Caria" title="Artemisia I of Caria">Artemisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pisindelis" title="Pisindelis">Pisindelis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lygdamis_II_of_Halicarnassus" title="Lygdamis II of Halicarnassus">Lygdamis II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adusius" title="Adusius">Adusius</a> (satrap)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecatomnus" title="Hecatomnus">Hecatomnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mausolus" title="Mausolus">Mausolus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemisia_II_of_Caria" title="Artemisia II of Caria">Artemisia II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idrieus" title="Idrieus">Idrieus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ada_of_Caria" title="Ada of Caria">Ada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixodarus" title="Pixodarus">Pixodarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orontobates" title="Orontobates">Orontobates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Kings of <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_I_of_Macedon" title="Amyntas I of Macedon">Amyntas I of Macedon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Macedon" title="Alexander I of Macedon">Alexander I of Macedon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Tyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Tyre">Kings of Tyre</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Mattan IV</li> <li>Boulomenus</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdemon" title="Abdemon">Abdemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evagoras_I" title="Evagoras I">Evagoras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azemilcus" title="Azemilcus">Azemilcus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Sidon" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Sidon">Kings of Sidon</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eshmunazar_I" title="Eshmunazar I">Eshmunazar I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabnit" title="Tabnit">Tabnit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amoashtart" title="Amoashtart">Queen Amoashtart (regent)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eshmunazar_II" title="Eshmunazar II">Eshmunazar II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodashtart" title="Bodashtart">Bodashtart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yatonmilk" title="Yatonmilk">Yatonmilk</a></li> <li>Anysos</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tetramnestos" title="Tetramnestos">Tetramnestos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baalshillem_I" title="Baalshillem I">Baalshillem I</a></li> <li>Baana</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baalshillem_II" title="Baalshillem II">Baalshillem II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdashtart_I" title="Abdashtart I">Abdashtart I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennes" title="Tennes">Tennes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evagoras_II" title="Evagoras II">Evagoras II</a></li> <li>Abdashtart II</li> <li>Abdashtart III</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Orontid_dynasty" title="Orontid dynasty">Satraps</a> of <a href="/wiki/Satrapy_of_Armenia" title="Satrapy of Armenia">Armenia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artasyrus" title="Artasyrus">Artasyrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orontes_I" title="Orontes I">Orontes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_III" title="Darius III">Darius III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orontes_II" title="Orontes II">Orontes II</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Satraps of <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aryandes" title="Aryandes">Aryandes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pherendates" title="Pherendates">Pherendates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achaemenes_(satrap)" title="Achaemenes (satrap)">Achaemenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsames_(satrap_of_Egypt)" title="Arsames (satrap of Egypt)">Arsames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pherendates_II" title="Pherendates II">Pherendates II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabaces" title="Sabaces">Sabaces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazaces" title="Mazaces">Mazaces</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Satraps of <a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hystaspes_(father_of_Darius_I)" title="Hystaspes (father of Darius I)">Hystaspes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dadarsi" title="Dadarsi">Dadarsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masistes" title="Masistes">Masistes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessus" title="Bessus">Bessus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Satraps of <a href="/wiki/Median_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Median Empire">Media</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hydarnes" title="Hydarnes">Hydarnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydarnes_the_Younger" title="Hydarnes the Younger">Hydarnes the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atropates" title="Atropates">Atropates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Satraps of <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Syennesis_III" title="Syennesis III">Syennesis III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camisares" title="Camisares">Camisares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazaeus" title="Mazaeus">Mazaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsames_(satrap_of_Cilicia)" title="Arsames (satrap of Cilicia)">Arsames</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Other known satraps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Megabyzus" title="Megabyzus">Megabyzus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abrocomas" title="Abrocomas">Abrocomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belesys" class="mw-redirect" title="Belesys">Belesys</a> (<a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_II" title="Darius II">Ochus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hyrcania" title="Hyrcania">Hyrcania</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satibarzanes" title="Satibarzanes">Satibarzanes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aria" title="Aria">Aria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atizyes" title="Atizyes">Atizyes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greater_Phrygia" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Phrygia">Greater Phrygia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrataphernes" title="Phrataphernes">Phrataphernes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_of_Persis" title="Ariobarzanes of Persis">Ariobarzanes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Persis" title="Persis">Persis</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abulites" title="Abulites">Abulites</a> (<a href="/wiki/Susiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Susiana">Susiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazaeus" title="Mazaeus">Mazaeus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>In most territories, Achaemenid rulers were succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Template:Hellenistic_satraps" title="Template:Hellenistic satraps">Hellenistic satraps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Template:Hellenistic_rulers" title="Template:Hellenistic rulers">Hellenistic rulers</a> from around 330 BC</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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id="Hellenistic_satraps396" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic</a> satraps</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Satraps" class="mw-redirect" title="Satraps">Satraps</a> under <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a><br />(334-323 BC)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ada_of_Caria" title="Ada of Caria">Ada</a> (Queen of <a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asander" title="Asander">Asander</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menander_(general)" title="Menander (general)">Menander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calas_(general)" title="Calas (general)">Calas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Demarchus" class="mw-redirect" title="Demarchus">Demarchus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hellespontine_Phrygia" title="Hellespontine Phrygia">Hellespontine Phrygia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greater_Phrygia" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Phrygia">Greater Phrygia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balakros" title="Balakros">Balakros</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menes_of_Pella" title="Menes of Pella">Menes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abistamenes" title="Abistamenes">Abistamenes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cappadocia" title="Cappadocia">Cappadocia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdalonymus" title="Abdalonymus">Abdalonymus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sidon" title="Sidon">Sidon</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithrenes" title="Mithrenes">Mithrenes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Armenia_(satrapy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenia (satrapy)">Armenia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazaeus" title="Mazaeus">Mazaeus</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stamenes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stamenes (page does not exist)">Stamenes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazaces" title="Mazaces">Mazakes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abulites" title="Abulites">Abulites</a> (<a href="/wiki/Susiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Susiana">Susiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxydates" title="Oxydates">Oxydates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Atropates" title="Atropates">Atropates</a> (<a href="/wiki/Media_(region)" title="Media (region)">Media</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrasaortes" title="Phrasaortes">Phrasaortes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxines" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxines">Oxines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peucestas" title="Peucestas">Peucestas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Persis" title="Persis">Persis</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleomenes_of_Naucratis" title="Cleomenes of Naucratis">Cleomenes of Naucratis</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satibarzanes" title="Satibarzanes">Satibarzanes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aria_(region)" title="Aria (region)">Aria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibyrtius" title="Sibyrtius">Sibyrtius</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kerman_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerman Province">Carmania</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Autophradates_(satrap_of_Tapuri)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Autophradates (satrap of Tapuri) (page does not exist)">Autophradates</a> (Tapuri, <a href="/wiki/Amardi" title="Amardi">Mardi</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andragoras_(4th_century_BC)" title="Andragoras (4th century BC)">Andragoras</a> (<a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amminapes" title="Amminapes">Amminapes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phrataphernes" title="Phrataphernes">Phrataphernes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pharismanes" title="Pharismanes">Pharismanes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hyrcania" title="Hyrcania">Hyrcania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artabazos_II" title="Artabazos II">Artabazos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleitus_the_Black" title="Cleitus the Black">Cleitus the Black</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amyntas_(son_of_Nicolaus)" title="Amyntas (son of Nicolaus)">Amyntas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxyartes" title="Oxyartes">Oxyartes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paropamisadae" title="Paropamisadae">Paropamisia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_(son_of_Machatas)" title="Philip (son of Machatas)">Philip</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eudemus_(general)" title="Eudemus (general)">Eudemus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient India">India</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peithon_(son_of_Agenor)" title="Peithon (son of Agenor)">Peithon, son of Agenor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gandhara" title="Gandhara">Gandhara</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxiles" title="Taxiles">Taxiles</a> (<a href="/wiki/Punjab_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab region">Punjab</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porus_the_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Porus the Elder">Porus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indus" class="mw-redirect" title="Indus">Indus</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Satraps" class="mw-redirect" title="Satraps">Satraps</a> at the<br /><a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Babylon" title="Partition of Babylon">Partition of Babylon</a><br />(323 BC)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antipater" title="Antipater">Antipater</a> (<a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>)</li> <li>Philo (<a href="/wiki/Illyria" title="Illyria">Illyria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonnatus" title="Leonnatus">Leonnatus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Phrygia" title="Phrygia">Hellespontine Phrygia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Phrygia" title="Phrygia">Phrygia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asander" title="Asander">Asander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nearchus" title="Nearchus">Nearchus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pamphylia" title="Pamphylia">Pamphylia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menander_(general)" title="Menander (general)">Menander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philotas_(satrap)" title="Philotas (satrap)">Philotas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumenes" title="Eumenes">Eumenes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cappadocia" title="Cappadocia">Cappadocia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paphlagonia" title="Paphlagonia">Paphlagonia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laomedon_of_Mytilene" title="Laomedon of Mytilene">Laomedon of Mytilene</a> (<a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoptolemus_(general)" title="Neoptolemus (general)">Neoptolemus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peucestas" title="Peucestas">Peucestas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Persis" title="Persis">Persis</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arcesilaus_(satrap)" title="Arcesilaus (satrap)">Arcesilaus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peithon" title="Peithon">Peithon</a> (Greater <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Media</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atropates" title="Atropates">Atropates</a> (Lesser <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Media</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scynus_(satrap)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scynus (satrap) (page does not exist)">Scynus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Susa" title="Susa">Susiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tlepolemus_(general)" title="Tlepolemus (general)">Tlepolemus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicanor_(satrap)" title="Nicanor (satrap)">Nicanor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrataphernes" title="Phrataphernes">Phrataphernes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Satrapy_of_Armenia" title="Satrapy of Armenia">Armenia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigenes_(general)" title="Antigenes (general)">Antigenes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Susiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Susiana">Susiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archon_of_Pella" title="Archon of Pella">Archon</a> (Pelasgia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_(satrap)" title="Philip (satrap)">Philip</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hyrcania" title="Hyrcania">Hyrcania</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stasanor" title="Stasanor">Stasanor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aria_(satrapy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aria (satrapy)">Aria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drangiana" title="Drangiana">Drangiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibyrtius" title="Sibyrtius">Sibyrtius</a> (<a href="/wiki/Arachosia" title="Arachosia">Arachosia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gedrosia" title="Gedrosia">Gedrosia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_(son_of_Nicolaus)" title="Amyntas (son of Nicolaus)">Amyntas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scythaeus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scythaeus (page does not exist)">Scythaeus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sogdiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sogdiana">Sogdiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxyartes" title="Oxyartes">Oxyartes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paropamisadae" title="Paropamisadae">Paropamisia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxiles" title="Taxiles">Taxiles</a> (<a href="/wiki/Punjab_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab region">Punjab</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peithon_(son_of_Agenor)" title="Peithon (son of Agenor)">Peithon, son of Agenor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gandhara" title="Gandhara">Gandhara</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porus_the_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Porus the Elder">Porus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indus" class="mw-redirect" title="Indus">Indus</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Satraps" class="mw-redirect" title="Satraps">Satraps</a> at the <br /><a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Triparadisus" title="Partition of Triparadisus">Partition of Triparadisus</a><br />(321 BC)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antipater" title="Antipater">Antipater</a> (<a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_III_of_Macedon" title="Philip III of Macedon">Arrhidaeus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Phrygia" title="Phrygia">Hellespontine Phrygia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Phrygia" title="Phrygia">Phrygia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pamphylia" title="Pamphylia">Pamphylia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassander" title="Cassander">Cassander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleitus_the_White" title="Cleitus the White">Cleitus the White</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philoxenus_(general)" title="Philoxenus (general)">Philoxenus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicanor_(satrap)" title="Nicanor (satrap)">Nicanor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cappadocia" title="Cappadocia">Cappadocia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paphlagonia" title="Paphlagonia">Paphlagonia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laomedon_of_Mytilene" title="Laomedon of Mytilene">Laomedon of Mytilene</a> (<a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peucestas" title="Peucestas">Peucestas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Persis" title="Persis">Persis</a>)</li> <li>Amphimachus (<a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peithon" title="Peithon">Peithon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Media</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tlepolemus_(general)" title="Tlepolemus (general)">Tlepolemus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kerman_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerman Province">Carmania</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_(satrap)" title="Philip (satrap)">Philip</a> (<a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigenes_(general)" title="Antigenes (general)">Antigenes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Susiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Susiana">Susiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stasanor" title="Stasanor">Stasanor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sogdiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sogdiana">Sogdiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stasander" title="Stasander">Stasander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aria_(satrapy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aria (satrapy)">Aria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drangiana" title="Drangiana">Drangiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibyrtius" title="Sibyrtius">Sibyrtius</a> (<a href="/wiki/Arachosia" title="Arachosia">Arachosia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gedrosia" title="Gedrosia">Gedrosia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxyartes" title="Oxyartes">Oxyartes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paropamisadae" title="Paropamisadae">Paropamisia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxiles" title="Taxiles">Taxiles</a> (<a href="/wiki/Punjab_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab region">Punjab</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peithon_(son_of_Agenor)" title="Peithon (son of Agenor)">Peithon, son of Agenor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gandhara" title="Gandhara">Gandhara</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porus_the_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Porus the Elder">Porus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indus" class="mw-redirect" title="Indus">Indus</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center">Later Satraps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peithon_(son_of_Agenor)" title="Peithon (son of Agenor)">Peithon, son of Agenor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibyrtius" title="Sibyrtius">Sibyrtius</a> (<a href="/wiki/Arachosia" title="Arachosia">Arachosia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drangiana" title="Drangiana">Drangiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudemus_(general)" title="Eudemus (general)">Eudemus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indus" class="mw-redirect" title="Indus">Indus</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagadates_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagadates I">Bagadates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ardakhshir_I" title="Ardakhshir I">Ardakhshir I</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wahbarz" title="Wahbarz">Wahbarz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vadfradad_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Vadfradad I">Vadfradad I</a>, Vadfradad II, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_(satrap)" title="Alexander (satrap)">Alexander</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 220 BC</span> (<a href="/wiki/Persis" title="Persis">Persis</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andragoras_(Seleucid_satrap)" title="Andragoras (Seleucid satrap)">Andragoras</a> (<a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demodamas" title="Demodamas">Demodamas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sogdiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sogdiana">Sogdiana</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodotus_I" title="Diodotus I">Diodotus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_(grandson_of_Seleucus_I_Nicator)" title="Alexander (grandson of Seleucus I Nicator)">Alexander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molon" title="Molon">Molon</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 220 BC</span>, <a href="/wiki/Timarchus" title="Timarchus">Timarchus</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 175 BC</span> (<a href="/wiki/Media_(region)" 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