Satrap

Satrap (Greek σατράπης satrápēs, Latinization Satrapes, from Old Persian xšaθrapā(van), i.e. "protector of the land/country") was the name given to the governors of the provinces in the ancient Median and Persian Achaemenid empires and in several of their heirs, as Sassanid and oriental hellenistic empires.

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In Modern Persian, it is spelled ساتراپ.

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