satrapy

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of Western Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sassanian Empire and Hellenistic empires).
 * 2) * 1951,, The Greeks in Bactria and India, , 2nd Edition, Digital printing 2010, page 1,
 * The Seleucid empire in its turn was still, in outward shape, very much the empire of Persia under different rulers; the great satrapies still remained, their military nature emphasised by the governor of a satrapy being no longer called satrap but strategos, 'general'.
 * The Seleucid empire in its turn was still, in outward shape, very much the empire of Persia under different rulers; the great satrapies still remained, their military nature emphasised by the governor of a satrapy being no longer called satrap but strategos, 'general'.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: satrapia
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: satrapio
 * Finnish: satraappikunta
 * French:
 * German: Satrapie
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σατραπεία
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: сатрапия
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: satrapia
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: satrapi
 * Tajik: сатрапия