What is "satrapies"

Usage examples of "satrapies".

At her second audience she had stood silent and apparently unnoticed amid a number of other courtiers as Som announced to them the opening of a new campaign to recover the lost seaboard satrapies, and particularly to crush the arch-rebel Thomas of the Broken Lands.

I did not mention the fact that many of Darius’ twenty satrapies are richer and larger than Magadha.

Since many of the satrapies are enormously rich and complex—I think particularly of Egypt and Lydia and India—a corrupt king’s eye dies rich.

Then the Great King split Babylonia into two satrapies and abolished the title king of Babel.

Since many of the satrapies are enormously rich and complex-I think particularly of Egypt and Lydia and India-a corrupt king’s eye dies rich.

Both knew how important it was to Ekuman that his power should be, or at least appear, seamless and perfect on the day when the Lords and Ladies from other Satrapies around appeared here at the Castle for the wedding feast.

It was true, then, that wedding guests were here from all the Satrapies nearby.

They were the powers that the folk of the Broken Lands and the other newly freed satrapies must fear, and must eventually defeat if they were to retain their freedom.

But it was in that sign, they said, that the Broken Lands and other satrapies along the seacoast had been lost.

But it was in that sign, they said, that the Broken Lands and other satrapies along the seacoast had been lost .

In addition, the valley is broken into five satrapies which are fairly independent of the central government.