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    The Great Satraps' Revolt, or the Revolts of the Satraps (c. 370-c.360 BCE), was a rebellion in the Achaemenid Empire of several satraps in western Anatolia...
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    BC, and most importantly, the revolts by the western satraps (known as the Great Satraps' Revolt) in the 360s and 350s BC, led by distinguished figures...
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    Orontes I (category Achaemenid satraps of Armenia)
    4th-century BC. He is notable for having led the unsuccessful Great Satraps' Revolt in Asia Minor against the Achaemenids from 362/1 BC to 360/359 BC....
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    Syria were in open rebellion (Revolt of the Satraps). The last great rebellions were put down by Artaxerxes III. The satrapic administration and title were...
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    Artabazos II (category Achaemenid satraps of Hellespontine Phrygia)
    to capture Datames, the satrap of Cappadocia, who had joined in the Satraps' revolt in which Artabazus' brother, Ariobarzanes, was a participant. However...
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    each satrap were measured with the Babylonian talent. Those paid in gold were measured with the Euboic talent. The total tribute from the satraps came...
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  • including Phrasaortes whom Alexander the Great appointed satrap of Persis in 330 BC. He joined in the Great Satraps' Revolt of the western Persian provinces from...
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    of Sardis. The Persian king Darius the Great vowed to have revenge on Athens and Eretria for this act. The revolt continued, with the two sides effectively...
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    (57-58), the career of Jason of Pherae (57, 60, 80, 95), and the Great Satraps' Revolt (90-93). Diodorus' main source is generally believed to have been...
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    Ariobarzanes of Phrygia (category Achaemenid satraps of Hellespontine Phrygia)
    unsuccessful revolt of the satraps of western Anatolia against the Achamenian King Artaxerxes II (Revolt of the Satraps). Several other satraps sided with...
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    joint Egyptian–Spartan effort to conquer Phoenicia. He quashed the Revolt of the Satraps in 372–362 BC. He is reported to have had a number of wives. His...
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    crown their own Pharaohs. Though it was eventually defeated, the Great Satraps' Revolt of 366–360 BC showed the growing structural problems within the...
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    Mausolus (category Achaemenid satraps of Caria)
    participation in the Great Satraps' Revolt, however, is on the side of his nominal sovereign. Mausolus, together with Autophradates the satrap of Lydia, led...
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  • However, in that year revolts erupted in Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and northern Mesopotamia, while a major Jewish revolt broke out in Roman territory...
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    to him. The satrap at Sardis, as well as his garrison, was among the first of many satraps to capitulate.[citation needed] As these satraps gave up, Alexander...
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    Artumpara (category Satraps of the Achaemenid Empire)
    self-identified as "the Mede) was an Achaemenid Satrap of Lycia circa 400-370 BCE. He was involved in the Great Satraps' Revolt on the side of central Achaemenid authority...
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    Autophradates (category Achaemenid satraps of Lydia)
    joined the Revolt of the Satraps. Autophradates participated to the Achaemenid resistance against the campaigns of Alexander the Great in Asia Minor. Together...
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    Xerxes I (redirect from Xerxes the Great)
    Xerxes suppressed the revolt in January 484 BC and appointed his full-brother Achaemenes as satrap of Egypt, replacing the previous satrap Pherendates, who...
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    against Artaxerxes II, in the Great Satraps' Revolt, so Nectanebo provided financial support to the rebelling satraps and re-established ties with both...
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  • IRANICA. Retrieved 8 January 2012. Mackintosh-Smith, Tim. "ON THE EDGE OF GREATNESS THE DAYS OF THE ARABS" ARABS A 3,000-YEAR HISTORY of PEOPLES, TRIBES and...
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    rebelled against the Achaemenid rule during the Great Satraps' Revolt in 360 BC. Alexander the Great, after taking Phaselis, was welcomed in Perge with...
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    The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several Greek regions of Asia Minor against Persian...
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    Antigonus' troops to revolt to his side. Antigonus, however, discovered the plot and executed Peithon. He then superseded Peucestas as satrap of Persia. In the...
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    Cunaxa Corinthian War Battle of Cnidus Great Satraps' Revolt Second conquest of Egypt Wars of Alexander the Great Battle of the Granicus Siege of Miletus Siege...
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    before losing many men to the harsh desert. Discovering that many of his satraps and military governors had misbehaved in his absence, Alexander executed...
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    Artaphernes (category Achaemenid satraps of Lydia)
    important role in suppressing the Ionian Revolt. In 507 BC, Artaphernes, as brother of Darius I and Satrap of Asia Minor in his capital Sardis, received...
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    that all the satraps in western Anatolia were to disband their mercenary forces. This was done to diminish the power of powerful satraps and consolidate...
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    Datames (category Achaemenid satraps of Cappadocia)
    made common cause with the other satraps who had revolted from Persia (the "Satraps' Revolt"). Artabazos, the satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, one of...
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    Cunaxa Corinthian War Battle of Cnidus Great Satraps' Revolt Second conquest of Egypt Wars of Alexander the Great Battle of the Granicus Siege of Miletus Siege...
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    Memnon of Rhodes (category Opponents of Alexander the Great)
     336–330 BC) to orchestrate a rebellion in Greece and he advised the Persian satraps to lay waste to the land that Alexander would have to pass, depriving his...
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