satrap
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These garrisons were used by the satraps to enforce the laws and maintain order, but they ultimately answered to the king and could discipline the satraps when necessary.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Communication between the satraps and the king was carried out through letters dictated to scribes and transmitted along royal roads.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In addition, a surprising number of New York business leaders, politicians, and real-estate satraps have convinced themselves that new cultural institutions are the handmaidens of commerce—especially when building permits call for them.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 27, 2016
This follows the recent death of Gen. Rustom Ghazali, another of Assad’s intelligence satraps.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2015
Though these colonies preserved their own local laws and politics, they were under the authority of the satraps of the great king.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Vocabulary lists containing satrap
Mesopotamia - Introductory
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Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks
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