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Spithridates attacking Alexander from behind at the Battle of Granicus. Charles le Brun (detail). Diodorus calls him Spithrobates ( Σπιθροβάτης Spithrobátēs ), and appears to confound him with Mithridates , the son-in-law of Darius, whom Alexander slew in the battle with his own hand; while what Arrian records of Spithridates ...
The Upper Satrapies comprised the entire eastern half of the territories conquered by Alexander: typically everything east of the River Tigris, [1] from the Zagros Mountains in the west to the borders of India in the southeast and Central Asia in the northeast, including the provinces of Media, Persis, Carmania, Drangiane, Hyrcania, Parthia, Margiane, Aria, Baktria, and Sogdiane. [2]
Alexander was Satrap of Persis circa 220 BC. Antiochus was then only fifteen years of age, and this circumstance together with the fact that Hermeias , a crafty intriguer whom every one had to fear, was all-powerful at his court, induced the two brothers to form the plan of causing the upper satrapies of the kingdom to revolt.
The last Achaemenid satrap of Cappadocia was Mithrobuzanes, who died in 334 BCE at the Battle of the Granicus fighting Alexander's invading army. [ 1 ] Satraps of Cappadocia (c. 380–331 BC)
In late 330 B.C. Alexander the Great, according to his biographers, captured Artacoana, the Areian capital. [7] Later, a new capital was built, either by Alexander himself or by his successors, Alexandria Ariana (Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ ἐν Ἀρίοις), modern Herat in northwest Afghanistan. Ptolemy lists several other cities, an ...
The Herakleia head, probable portrait of a Persian (Achaemenid) Empire Satrap of Asia Minor, end of 6th century BCE, probably under Darius I [1]. A satrap (/ ˈ s æ t r ə p /) was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian (Achaemenid) Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires. [2]
Spitamenes (Old Persian Spitamana; Greek Σπιταμένης; 370 BC – 328 BC) was a Sogdian warlord [1] [2] and the leader of the uprising in Sogdiana and Bactria against Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, in 329 BC.
Ionia remained under Persian rule until the campaigns of Alexander the Great in 334 BC. Apart from Yaunas of the plain and sea , there are also mentioned Yauna paradraya (Ionians beyond or across the sea such as Naxos , Thasos and Byzantium ) as well the Yauna takabara ( Greeks with sunhats , the Macedonians) in Skudra satrapy.