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  2. Spithridates - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Cappadocia (satrapy) - Wikipedia

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    The Satrapy belonged to the third tax district and paid an estimated 360 talents a year in tribute. The first satrap (governor) known by name is Ariaramnes, who ruled sometime at the beginning of the reign of the Achaemenid king Darius the Great.

  4. Alexander (satrap) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Upper Satrapies - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Artacoana - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Spitamenes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Lydia (satrapy) - Wikipedia

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    The name for Lydia as an Achaemenid territory in the DNa inscription of Darius the Great (c. 490 BC): Sparda (𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭).. Tabalus, appointed by Cyrus the Great, was the first satrap; however, his rule did not last long as the Lydians revolted.

  9. Chorasmia (satrapy) - Wikipedia

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    Its king, Pharasmanes, concluded a peace treaty with Alexander the Great in the winter of 327/328 A.D/C.E. [3] Chorasmia approximately corresponds to the modern-day region of Khwarezm. References [ edit ]