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How to use satrapy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word satrapy? Here are some examples.

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After Alexander's death, Seleucus gained the satrapy of Babylonia, which was to form the core of his later kingdom.
In the first decade of the sixth century, the Persians invaded Thrace and made it part of the satrapy of Skudra.
The satrapy, much reduced in size from Achaemenian times, was the basis for Seleucid control of the countryside.
The fear is growing that, by depending so heavily on Iran, Iraq is being turned into an Iranian satrapy.
Alexander the Great planned to build a port city at this location for the trade and communication with his Indus valley satrapy and his empire.
So that Iran can build up a satrapy on Israel's border to advance its project of regional hegemony?
However tricky the politics of using German taxpayers' money to bail out Russian depositors, a deal that ends up entrenching Cyprus's status as an offshore Russian satrapy would be a perverse outcome.
Our interest is based on the fact that within the satrapy of Assyria-Babylonia, the old Mesopotamian towns preserved their cultures, their languages and their internal organisations.
He likewise profited from the defection in 357 of a number of Athens' allies, simultaneously enlarging both his own satrapy and the Persian sphere of influence as Rhodes and Cos were added to his possessions.
Following Herodotus, this satrapy was in the 5th century BC, together with Egypt, the wealthiest and yielded the highest taxes to the central government.
Barck ran his office as a satrapy in the dominion of Bernard McFeely, the fifty-six-year-old mayor of Hoboken.
Spitamenes, who held an undefined position in the satrapy of Sogdiana, in 329 BC betrayed Bessus to Ptolemy, one of Alexander's trusted companions, and Bessus was executed.
Examples from Classical Literature
After the death of Cambyses, the country received a Persian governor, and consequently became a satrapy.
I think we shall be able to find a satrapy a-piece for them, as compensation for to-night's undeserved imprisonment.
Ptolemy now informed him that he wished to possess his satrapy, but was ready to compensate him with a sum of money.
Thus an Anglo-Saxon community can take on the characters of an Oriental satrapy.
Hytaspes, the father of Darius, held at this time the Parthian satrapy.
The twelfth satrapy, known as the satrapy of Sardis, or of Lydia.
Cilicia with its metropolis of Tarsus was the fourth satrapy.
In the battle of Gaugamela he commanded the troops of his satrapy.
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