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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromσατραπεία
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromσατραπεία
- English todaysatrapy
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σατραπεία (satrapeía).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
satrapy
Today it means: The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of West Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sasanian Empire and Hellenistic empires). Full definition →
Ancient Greek σατραπεία