See also the related deity
Satrapes. Satrap was the name given to the governors of the
provinces of ancient
Median and Persian empires, including the
Achaemenid Empire and in several of their heirs, such as the
Sassanid Empire and the
Hellenistic empires.Satrap is derived from the
Old Persian xšaθrapāvā ("protector of the province"), from xšaθra ("realm" or "province") and pāvā ("protector"). In
Biblical Hebrew, the word is spelled אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפָּן ahashdarpān (only in the plural אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִים ahashdarpenim). In
Greek, the word was rendered as σατράπης, satrápēs, and was
romanized as satrapes, from the Old Persian xšaθrapā(van)). In modern
Persian it would be ساتراپ (keshvarban or shahrban). There is a link, via
Sanskrit, to the warrior class of India, the
kshatriya.
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