satrap|satraps in English

noun

[sa·trap || 'seɪtræp /'sætrəp]

governor of a province in ancient Persia

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1. A thousand rich dukes and satraps want to be kings.

2. The name o Azerbaijan derives frae Atropates, a Persian satrap unner the Achaemenid Empire, that wis later reinstatit as the satrap o Media unner Alexander the Great

3. 22 The scheming high officials and satraps were gone.

4. • What devious plot did the high officials and satraps devise?

5. (b) What was the true motive of the high officials and satraps?

6. Altogether, there were 27 independent Western Satrap rulers during a period of about 350 years.

7. 5 The other high officials and the satraps must have been seething with anger.

8. 6 It seemed good to Da·riʹus to appoint 120 satraps over the whole kingdom.

9. Darius organized the empire by dividing it into provinces and placing satraps to govern it.

10. Misled by his love of power and fraud, he betrayed his fellow satraps to the king.

11. He then arranged for an inauguration ceremony to which he invited his satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, and other high officials.

12. He gathered his satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, police magistrates, and all the administrators of the jurisdictional districts.

13. Alexander now adopted symbolic features of Persian royal dress, but one of Darius’s noble followers (and murderers)—Bessus, the satrap of Bactria—also proclaimed himself king

14. The Greco-Bactrian kingdom appeared in 250 BCE, when the satrap Diodotos (or Theodotus in Latin) rebelled against his Seleucid ruler, Antiochos II, knowing that Antiochus was occupied struggling against the …

15. 6 So these high officials and satraps went in as a group to the king, and they said to him: “O King Da·riʹus, may you live on forever.

16. At that time, the satrap Diodotus declared independence and founded the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, which covered the area south of the Caspian Sea, up to the Aral Sea, and east to the Hindu Kush and the Pamir Mountains.

17. On paper , the Centre is the boss of all cadre officers and is free to summon them to its direct command from all outposts , no matter how hostile or protective their regional satraps are .

18. Xenophon's Anabasis has a detailed description of the country, where it is also written that the region near the river Centrites was defended by the satrap of Armenia for Artaxerxes II, named Orontes, son of Artasyras, who had Armenian contingents as well as Alarodians.

19. 2 Then King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces* to come to the inauguration of the image that King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had set up.

20. In addition to the king’s own privy council, or advisory board, composed of “seven princes of Persia and Media” (Es 1:14; Ezr 7:14), there were satraps appointed over major regions or countries, such as Media, Elam, Parthia, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Armenia, Cappadocia, Lydia, Ionia, and, as the empire expanded, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya.

21. 27 And the satraps, prefects, governors, and the high officials of the king who were assembled there+ saw that the fire had had no effect on* the bodies of these men;+ not a hair of their heads had been singed, their cloaks looked no different, and there was not even the smell of fire on them.