Borrowed from Ancient Greek σατραπε?α ( satrapeia ) .

satrapy ( plural satrapys or satrapies )

1. ( historical ) The territory governed by a satrap ; a province of any of several ancient empires of Western Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sassanian Empire and Hellenistic empires).
   • 1864 , Edward Bouverie Pusey , Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford , John Henry and James Parker, page 413 :

     Several, which occur as one Satrapy in the system given by Herodotus, are given in the lists as distinct provinces.

   • 1951 , W. W. Tarn , The Greeks in Bactria and India , Cambridge University Press , 2nd Edition, Digital printing 2010, page 1 ,

     The Seleucid empire in its turn was still, in outward shape, very much the empire of Persia under different rulers; the great satrapies still remained, their military nature emphasised by the governor of a satrapy being no longer called satrap but strategos , 'general'.

   • 2013 , Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century , University of Toronto Press , page 30 :

     A satrapy ′s borders were generally the same as those of the previously independent kingdom, with the satrap stationed in the old capital. [ … ] The Great King expected two things from the satrapies : a regular supply of taxes (called "tribute" because it underlined the satrapy ′s subordination to the king) and units for the Persian army when needed.

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