Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a satrap or a satrapy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, related to, or in the manner of a
satrap or asatrapy .
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Examples
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He needed money to fund his campaign, be it through taxes or tribute payments, and the longtime employees at the satrapal palace were highly skilled at fleecing the local sheep.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He needed money to fund his campaign, be it through taxes or tribute payments, and the longtime employees at the satrapal palace were highly skilled at fleecing the local sheep.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He needed money to fund his campaign, be it through taxes or tribute payments, and the longtime employees at the satrapal palace were highly skilled at fleecing the local sheep.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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After the conquest of Alexander, his generals issued coinage under his name in their satrapal authority.
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All the instances we have of satrapal coins were issued by satraps invested with the command of armies.
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Nicocles I; but the question arises, Were these satrapal pieces of Evagoras coined on the island?
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On the island of Cyprus are found numerous coins which present all the distinctive signs of satrapal money; they are believed to have been struck by Evagoras II, the successor of
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Sidon, Gebal, and Aradus had their own coinage, but there seems to have been no satrapal coinage struck off in Phœnicia.
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Those of the generals who became kings, in 306, issued coins in their own name, preserving on them the personal emblems which they had employed in their satrapal authority.
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