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Sattagydia
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Sattagydia (Old Persian: 𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎢𐏁 Thataguš, country of the "hundred cows") was one of the easternmost regions of the Achaemenid Empire, part of its Seventh tax district according to Herodotus,[5] along with Gandārae, Dadicae and Aparytae.[6][7][8] It was situated east of the Sulaiman Mountains up to the Indus River in the basin around Bannu in modern day's southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[9]
Quick Facts 𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎢𐏁Sāttagydiⁿa (Old Persian), Government ...
Sattagydia | |||||||||
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Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire | |||||||||
513 BCE–c. 4th century BCE | |||||||||
![]() Sāttagydiⁿa was part of the eastern territories of the Achaemenid Empire | |||||||||
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• Type | Monarchy | ||||||||
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• 513–499 BCE | Darius I (first) | ||||||||
• 358–338 BC | Artaxerxes III | ||||||||
Historical era | Achaemenid era | ||||||||
513 BCE | |||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 4th century BCE | ||||||||
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Sattagydia
Sattagydian Achaemenid soldier
Xerxes I tomb, Sattagydian soldier circa 480 BCE (detail).
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