"Dioekeseis (satrapies) of Alexander the Great’s Empire " Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Jan 2018 10:25 p.m. PST |
"These are some interesting maps on the Dioekeseis of Alexander the Great's State, aka the old satrapies of the Achaemenid State which he conquered, that is the administrative districts of the old Persian empire. Alexander and his Successors generally used the same administrative system but actually they did not use (at least officially) the Persian term ‘satrapy' but their own Greek term ‘dioekesis' which had the same meaning. The governor of a dioekesis was the dioeketes, the one that the Persians used to call ‘satrap' (‘kshatrapa' in Avestan Persian, coming from the same root as the Indo-Aryan ‘kshatriya')…"
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| Mars Ultor | 10 Jan 2018 7:07 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 11 Jan 2018 10:35 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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