A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap, the title given to provincial governors of the ancient Median and Persian Achaemenid Empires and of several of their successor states, including the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A satrapy was the standard provincial administrative unit of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and later empires that adopted the model.
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was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian (Achaemenid) Empires
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A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap.
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A satrap () was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian (Achaemenid) Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
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