| The state and its provincial pygmy satrapies are intruding into every area of life. |
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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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| Bessus was now in Bactria raising a national revolt in the eastern satrapies with the usurped title of Great King. |
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| The use of coins reached Persia from the Lydian kingdom of Croesus and the Persian satrapies of Asia Minor. |
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| These former satrapies of the Soviet Union count on Germany for political support, for investment and above all for trade. |
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| Conscious of Russia's history of meddling in its former Central Asian satrapies, he fears it might support an alternative, such as Mr Saidov. |
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| Most of these mini-kingdoms, satrapies and private fiefdoms died along with the adventurers and sea-traders who founded them. |
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| Of all the warlord satrapies of China it was economically the strongest. |
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| The political division of the land into 19 or 20 small satrapies, which is found later, under the Parthians, began under the Seleucids. |
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| It was already remarked that the Seleucids controlled their territory by a division in satrapies, eparchies and hipparchies. |
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| Their administration greatly encouraged the efforts of the satrapies toward innovative practices in agronomy, arboriculture, and irrigation. |
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| He divided it into twenty satrapies and judiciously balanced central authority with decentralization within each territory. |
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| Indeed, some passages are understood in diametrically opposed ways by different scholars. Confucius lived at a time when the old feudal order had disintegrated into warring satrapies. |
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| The Seleucids inherited the Achaemenid administrative order: they maintained the system of satrapies, which were divided in minor subunits, the eparchies and hipparchies. |
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| The satrapies handed out by Perdiccas at the Partition of Babylon became power bases each general used to bid for power. |
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