Achaemenid Syria
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Achaemenid Syria was the portion of the Near East known in antiquity as Syria and governed under the Persian Achaemenid Empire as the Satrapy of Eber-Nari. Recorded Achaemenid satraps of Syria included Megabyzus, Belesys I and Belesys II. The administrative convention of governing the Persian region of Syria as a satrapy also continued under Macedonian rule following the conquests of Alexander the Great.[1]
Quick Facts
Achaemenid Syria | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Province of Achaemenid Empire | |||||||||
Assyria in the Achaemenid Empire, 500 BCE. | |||||||||
|
Close