How To Use Satrap In A Sentence
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The king sent messengers on racing camels to the nearby satrapies with orders to dispatch provisions to him as quickly as possible, but the distances were too great for these calls to be easily answered.
Alexander the Great
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The ball has been thrown into the court of the central government of India by a wily satrap from a rival camp.
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Satraps of both the empires assumed power in their own feudatory territories, the most important of the Vijayanagara remnants were the Nayaks of Madurai.
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Alexander placed Ada on the throne of Caria as his satrap in the smoldering ruins of the city and stationed enough troops nearby to drive out the last of the Persians from their citadels.
Alexander the Great
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This district of Aeolis belonged to Pharnabazus,140 but had been held as a satrapy under him by a Dardanian named Zenis whilst he was alive; but when Zenis fell sick and died, Pharnabazus made preparation to give the satrapy to another.
Hellenica
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They wrote out all Mordecai's orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.
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The capital was Ajmer and Delhi was a provincial satrapy.
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He was familiar with most of the Greek poleis, Macedon, the satraps and cities along what is now the western Turkish coast, many of the isles in the Aegean, Persia and its holdings, Egypt, and many other Mediterranean cities.
Kings and Poets
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Mausolus was a satrap, or governor, in the Persian Empire, and his fabled tomb is the source of the word "mausoleum.
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Contrast the free states of the world, while their freedom lasted, with the cotemporary subjects of monarchical or oligarchical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal monarchies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or anterevolutionary France.
Representative Government
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Ada: Satrap of Caria until removed by her brother Pixodarus.
Alexander the Great
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The state and its provincial pygmy satrapies are intruding into every area of life.
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Oman constituted one of the Satrapies of the Persian Empire around 563 BC.
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Regulus satrapa – golden-crowned kinglet, male, captured at a winter bird-banding site near Ft.
The Panda's Thumb: August 2009 Archives
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Once Alexander had destroyed the professional core of Persians and mercenary Greeks at Issus, Darius had to rely on levies from outlying satrapies.
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And since it is not a democracy, that means it lies with the Taliban, the warlords and their satrapies, and Karzai, to the degree anybody listens to Karzai.
Gordon Adams: Afghanistan:Why Do We Stay?
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As one moves away from the main power centre, the regional Islamic satraps - whether governors of the Delhi Sultanate or newly-independent Sultan - patronized an architecture which slowly began to assume a very different identity.
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From the end of the 370s Persia also faced a series of satrap revolts; these revolts particularly involved the western provinces of the empire, and rebel satraps made various overtures to Greek cities.
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The accusation is that this money is recycled, in return for votes, into the pet schemes of the satraps who make up Fifa's self-perpetuating executive.
Fifa's future: Don't get mad, get even | Editorial
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Persian: “They were on their way from the king to the satrap;” in reply to which the women gave them to understand that the satrap was not at home, but was away a parasang farther on.
Anabasis
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The satrap had recently seized the Carian throne from his sister, Ada, and now wanted to make sure his position was secure if Philip made it as far as Halicarnassus.
Alexander the Great
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Asclepiodorus, probably a Greek, was put in charge of collecting taxes from the province, while the former Persian satrap Mazaeus was reconfirmed in his previous office.
Alexander the Great
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The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
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As anyone who reads history knows - kingdoms, satrapies, empires, commonwealths, archduchies, monarchies, nomates come and go across the stage of human history.
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The grand columned audience hall is the archetypal feature of Achemenid architecture, and was intended to overwhelm visiting satraps and clients.
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The empire's satrapies stretched from the Indus to the Aegean, and delicate reliefs on the walls of the Apadana Palace depict Libyans, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Turks and others bearing tributes to Darius.
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Having so done in Persia, he established twenty provinces, which the Persians themselves call satrapies; and having established the provinces and set over them rulers, he appointed tribute to come to him from them according to races, joining also to the chief races those who dwelt on their borders, or passing beyond the immediate neighbours and assigning to various races those which lay more distant.
The History of Herodotus
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She was originally from Jamaillia and a companion to their satrap.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Gossip had it that she had fallen into deep disfavour with the ruling satrap, and that he all but exiled her to Bingtown.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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A look at the seat-sharing arrangements they have made in various states suggests how easily they have been bullied into accepting the crumbs thrown at them by the regional satraps.
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Regulus satrapa by Dave Rintoul — golden-crowned kinglet, male, captured at a winter bird-banding site near Ft.
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Feeling unequal to the challenge, many officials tacitly acknowledged the power of these de facto satraps.
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Their local satraps were threatened with demotion and fines.
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On that day the husbandmen were admitted, without distinction, to the table of the king and his satraps.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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There are few papyri from his reign, but hieroglyphic inscriptions from the Delta (especially the ‘Satrap Stele’) present him as a traditional pharaoh.
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Turning up the deep astrachan collar of his long coat, the stranger swept out of the shop, with the air, Miss Fritten afterwards described it, of a Satrap proroguing a Sanhedrim.
Literature
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After Alexander's death, Seleucus gained the satrapy of Babylonia, which was to form the core of his later kingdom.
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Carrying a bunch of regular slaves, but forward was a batch that were a gift from the Satrap of Jamaillia himself to some high muckamuck in Chalced.
Ship Of Magic
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Fortunately, the balance was only slightly readjusted this summer with the publication of Ms Satrapi's critically acclaimed memoir of her childhood in Iran.
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I had to find titles, in English first editions usually, that would have been in the libraries of the great European satraps and plenipotentiaries like the Sforzas or the Borgias.
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Local satrapies could not survive decay at the empire's heart.
Times, Sunday Times
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I, Fenris Badwulf, dependable Satrap and dissolver of problems, wrote this.
Let's talk about work.
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By the way, if the US "goes cold" on Bahrain or any of a dozen other favoured satrapies, Saudi Arabia will not be able to do much, since it has an almost negligible army except, possibly, for the foreign hires.
Bahrain: No conflict. Plenty of interest | Editorial
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The polls will decide the fate of some of these regional satraps.
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The women delegates were the first to snap out of the euphoria, when they realised their fate would depend on the whims of the same corrupt and brutal satraps they had long resisted.
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At its zenith, there were 23 provinces ( "satrapies") under its administration and rule.
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Or perhaps those who would benefit most from Imran Khan's wise suggestions are the timid little satrap/'allies' of NATO who would sooner waste their wealth, consign their sons to foreign graves and provoke generations of revenge attacks than tell a ranting yankee general at the NATO meetings to depart and leave the rest of us and themalone.
Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan
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Just as he was approaching the borders of Bactria, Alexander received news that made him regret his hasty decision to reappoint Satibarzanes as satrap of Aria.
Alexander the Great
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DARIUS I instituted a major reorganization of the administration and finances of the empire, establishing twenty provinces ruled by Satraps.
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To territorialize the whole South, and place a satrap over every parish and county of it -- saying no word for freedom -- would be a gentle and conciliating procedure compared with the most innocent utterance of a mere sentiment in behalf of emancipation and the elevation of the negro to the status of a man.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The principal adversary and all but a few of its satraps gave up the conflict.
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With heavy-lidded eyes, wide-open mouths or rubber-hosey limbs, Satrapi's characters convey everything from gleeful, kinetic action to stark terror to heart-rending anguish-which is perfectly fitting for the autobiographical
Frames Per Second Magazine
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A new challenge arose when Bessus, who had withdrawn to his satrapy, proclaimed himself King of Kings under the regnal name Artaxerxes V.
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In the town of Sardis, within the satrapy of Lydia, the young philosopher-warrior Xenophon is about to embark on a most historic mission.
2010 April 10 « The BookBanter Blog
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Satrapi illustrates her comics in a simple style, but don't let that fool you.
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Of all the warlord satrapies of China it was economically the strongest.
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Born in New Delhi in 1941, when the Raj had less than a decade left in existence, he has not let the twilight of the British Empire impede him from becoming governor-general of his own satrapy.
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Outside the bounds of obedience are the orders or policies established by dictators and despotic satraps.
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In the first decade of the sixth century, the Persians invaded Thrace and made it part of the satrapy of Skudra.
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The Persian satrap was unable to stop him at the first major battle at the Granicus River.
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Reports began to reach the king that his appointees had taken advantage of his long absence to set themselves up as virtually independent rulers in their satrapies, indulging in extravagant lifestyles and enforcing their will with private militias.
Alexander the Great
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In fact provincial satraps already have a big say even in government formations at the Centre.
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Cast steles from Persepolis depict subject nations bringing gifts from satrapies as far apart as Lydia (western Turkey) and India to honour the ‘king of kings’.
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He reorganized the administration and divided the empire into 20 satrapies, as well as introducing a standard gold coinage, the daric.
E. The Persian Empire
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So when no one turned up for his meeting, the local satrap reacted in the only way he knew how.
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The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
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The empire's satrapies stretched from the Indus to the Aegean, and delicate reliefs on the walls of the Apadana Palace depict Libyans, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Turks and others bearing tributes to Darius.
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From the outset he regarded Asia Minor as liberated territory only in so far as he displaced the Persians, and he announced the fact of possession by imposing his own satraps upon the erstwhile Persian provinces.
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King of Persia (33'-330) who was defeated in several battles by Alexander the Great. His murder by a Bactrian satrap effectively ended the Persian Empire.
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But this is a luxury Xerxes would have given a Satrapie to have tasted, and not to be indulged in over-often, lest it lead to effeminacy, which is as far removed from comfort as is sensuality from pleasure.
Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.
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He also built up a chain of regional satraps, in Mabar, Bengal, Warangal, Vijayanagar, who unfortunately rebelled against his rule.
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The break up of the Vijayanagara empire had resulted in the satraps setting up their own separate kingdoms and the Brahmins were sought to legitimatise their rebel rule.
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Their fleets were their satrap, their feudal fiefdom, and the crews were their serfs.
SAN ANDREAS
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François Georges-Picot, the French delegate at the secret negotiations that divided the Ottoman Empire into British, French and Russian satrapies, laid out France's dubious claim to Mosul and the area around it.