A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap, the title given to provincial governors of the ancient Median and Persian Achaemenid Empires and of several of their successor states, including the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
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A satrapy was the standard provincial administrative unit of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and later empires that adopted the model.
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