Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The territory or sphere under the rule of a satrap.
- noun A nation, state, territory, or area controlled as if by a satrap.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The territory governed by a
satrap .
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Examples
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The man designated to rule a satrapy was a satrap.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The man designated to rule a satrapy was a satrap.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The twelfth satrapy, known as the satrapy of Sardis, or of Lydia.
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His work survives only in scattered fragments, but the intelligence he gathered allowed Darius to add the Indus valley to the Persian Empire as the twentieth satrapy.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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For all practical geopolitical purposes, the Gulf monarchies are a U.S. satrapy.
Pepe Escobar: The Myth of “Isolated” Iran Pepe Escobar 2012
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His work survives only in scattered fragments, but the intelligence he gathered allowed Darius to add the Indus valley to the Persian Empire as the twentieth satrapy.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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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.
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His work survives only in scattered fragments, but the intelligence he gathered allowed Darius to add the Indus valley to the Persian Empire as the twentieth satrapy.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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For all practical geopolitical purposes, the Gulf monarchies are a U.S. satrapy.
Pepe Escobar: The Myth of “Isolated” Iran Pepe Escobar 2012
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For all practical geopolitical purposes, the Gulf monarchies are a U.S. satrapy.
Pepe Escobar: The Myth of “Isolated” Iran Pepe Escobar 2012
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