Satrapies

Having so done in Persia, he established twenty provinces, which the Persians themselves call satrapies; and having established the provinces and set over them rulers, he appointed tribute to come to him from them according to races, joining also to the chief races those who dwelt on their borders, or passing beyond the immediate neighbours and assigning to various races those which lay more distant. ❋ Herodotus (2003)

At its zenith, there were 23 provinces ( "satrapies") under its administration and rule. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reports began to reach the king that his appointees had taken advantage of his long absence to set themselves up as virtually independent rulers in their satrapies, indulging in extravagant lifestyles and enforcing their will with private militias. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

The king sent messengers on racing camels to the nearby satrapies with orders to dispatch provisions to him as quickly as possible, but the distances were too great for these calls to be easily answered. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

By the way, if the US "goes cold" on Bahrain or any of a dozen other favoured satrapies, Saudi Arabia will not be able to do much, since it has an almost negligible army except, possibly, for the foreign hires. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And since it is not a democracy, that means it lies with the Taliban, the warlords and their satrapies, and Karzai, to the degree anybody listens to Karzai. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sixty years ago, as Europe's satrapies threw off their colonial patriarchs, the African-Martinican author and poet Aimé Césaire warned the Old World of the damage its adventures abroad had at home. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We need to develop our own local natural resources fully, stop artificially strangling ourselves with “green/environmental” over-regulation, and stop propping up hostile, Middle Eastern satrapies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the wake of the Cold War, its various military commands (including Northcom, set up by the Bush administration in 2002, and Africom, set up in 2007) divided the greater part of the planet into what were essentially military satrapies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It could have continued to go into a long and gradual decline and dismantling of that illusion, including doing some of the things that happened anyway, such as pulling back from expensively supporting former foreign satrapies like Cuba and North Korea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

China has historically been divided along north-south lines, into Five Kingdoms, Warring States or local satrapies, as often as it has been united. ❋ Dru C. Gladney (2009)

It is the unmistakable mark of banana republics and satrapies that only one little man, one adviser to the little prince, can wield such deleterious influence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Implicit is that imperial America rules, and satrapies follow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For far too long, competing satrapies have had overlapping jurisdictions; this has often led to financial waste and duplication of programs focused on urbanization, violence against women, exploitation of children, alcohol and drug abuse and a deteriorating environment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He just wants to get a head start on it now and is counting on a fawning press corps to treat his tour of the satrapies as an opportunity for his intellectual advancement, preparing him to fill the shoes of the many supposedly wise, altruistic Caesars who have gone before him in Washington. ❋ Unknown (2008)