satrapy
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The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
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Cyrus, being especially pleased, once again started to supply the Spartan fleet with funds, even allowing Lysander to run his satrapy in his absence.
The former region of Gandhara and Kamboja (upper Indus) had constituted seventh satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire and annually contributed 170 talents of gold dust as a tribute to the Achaemenids.
This satrapy was later broken up and recombined.
Herodotus mentions that the Libyans and the Indus satrapy supplied cavalry and chariots to Xerxes the Great 's army.