Satrapy of Egypt

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former administrative territorial entity province satrapy

The Satrapy of Egypt was a Persian-administered province of the Achaemenid Empire that governed Egypt through satraps before its later Hellenistic rule.

Aliases (3)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former administrative territorial entity → province → satrapy →
administeredBy	satraps →
appliesToJurisdiction	Egypt →
capital	Memphis NERFINISHED → Susa →
conqueredBy	Alexander the Great → Cambyses II →
country	Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED →
dissolved	332 BC →
endTime	332 BC → 343 BC → 404 BC →
era	Classical antiquity →
establishedBy	Cambyses II →
followedBy	Macedonian Egypt → Ptolemaic Kingdom → Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt →
follows	Saite Dynasty → Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt →
governmentForm	satrapal administration →
hasPart	Lower Egypt → Upper Egypt →
inception	525 BC →
languageUsed	Egyptian language → Imperial Aramaic →
locatedIn	Africa NERFINISHED → Egypt → North Africa →
namedAfter	Egypt →
notableOfficeHolder	Achaemenes NERFINISHED → Aryandes → Mazaces → Pherendates → Sabaces →
partOf	Achaemenid Empire →
religion	Ancient Egyptian religion → Zoroastrianism →
rulingEmpire	Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED →
significantEvent	Egyptian revolts against Achaemenid rule → First Achaemenid period in Egypt → Persian conquest of Egypt → Second Achaemenid period in Egypt →
startTime	525 BC →
underMonarch	Artaxerxes I NERFINISHED → Artaxerxes III → Cambyses II → Darius I NERFINISHED → Xerxes I NERFINISHED →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Late Period of Egypt ("First Persian conquest of Egypt") → Late Period of Egypt ("Second Persian conquest of Egypt") →	significantEvent
Sais ("Persian conquest of Egypt") →	declinedAfter
Ptolemaic Kingdom →	precededBy