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Herodotus had divided the Achaemenid Empire into 20 districts. The following is a description of the ethnic makeup of the districts and the amount they paid in taxes, translated from Herdotus' Histories. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
The Achaemenid Empire (Old Persian: HakhÄmanishiyan, هخامنشیان also frequently, the Achaemenid Persian Empire.) (559 BC–330 BC) was the first of the Persian Empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran. ...
First district
The first district included the Ionians, Asian Magnesians, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians. Together, they contributed 400 talents of silver. The Ionians were one of the three main ancient Greek ethno-linguistic groups, linked by their use of the Ionic dialect of the Greek language. ...
The Aeolians were one of the ancient Greek tribes. ...
The Carians (Greek ΚαÏες Kares, or ΚαÏικοι Karikoi) were the eponymous inhabitants of Caria. ...
Lycia is a region on the southern coast of Turkey. ...
Second district The second district included the Mysians, Lydians, Lasonians, Cabalians, and Hytennians, who contributed 500 talents. Mysia is a region in the northwest of Asia Minor. ...
See 110 Lydia for the asteroid. ...
Third district The third district included the people on the southern shore of the Hellespont, Phrygians, Asian Thracians, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and Syrians, who contributed 360 talents. The Helespont/Dardanelles, a long narrow strait dividing the Balkans (Europe) along the Gallipoli peninsula from Asia Anatolia (Asia Minor). ...
In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of the Anatolian highlands, part of modern Turkey. ...
Paphlagonia was an ancient area on the Black Sea coast of north central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia and Pontus, and separated from Phrygia (later, Galatia) by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus. ...
Fourth district The fourth district included the Cilicians, who paid 500 talents of silver along with 360 white horses (one for each day of the year) in taxes. Of the talents, 140 were used to maintain the cavalry force that guarded Cilicia.
Fifth district This district included the area from teh town of Posidium,as far as Egypt, omitting Arabian territory (which did not pay taxes). This district also contained part of Syria, which was called Palestine, and Cyrpus. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Sixth district The sixth district included Egypt and the Lybians on the border towns of Cyrene and Barca. This district paid 700 talents, in addition to the money from the fish in Lake Moeris, and 120,000 bushels of grain for the Persian troops and their auxiliaries stationed in the White Castle at Memphis. Cyrene can refer to: The USS Cyrene (AGP-13), a motor torpedo boat tender Cyrene, a figure from Greek mythology Cyrene, a Greek colony in Libya (north Africa) 133 Cyrene, an asteroid Cyrene, fictional character who is the mother of Xena in the series Xena: Warrior Princess See also: Cyrenaica...
Barca (Barqa) was a Byzantine province and city in medieval North Africa, occupying the coastal area of what is modern Libya. ...
Lake Moeris was an ancient lake located in the Fayum depression, 80 km southwest of Cairo in Egypt. ...
Seventh district The seventh district included the Sattagydians, Gandarians, Dadicae, and Aparytae, which paid 170 talents in taxes.
Eight district The eight district comprised of Susa and the rest of Cissia. It paid 300 talents in taxes. Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa. ...
Ninth district The ninth district incorporated Babylon and Assyria, which were required to give 1000 talents of silver and 500 eunuch boys. Babylon (in Arabic: بابل; in Syriac: Ü’Ü’Ü™Ü in Hebrew:בבל) was an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq), the ruins of which can be found in present-day Babil Province, about 80km south of Baghdad. ...
An Assyrian winged bull, or lemmasu. ...
Tenth district The tenth district included Ecbatana and the rest of Media along with the Paricanians and Orthocorybantes, and paid 450 talents in taxes. Golden Rhyton from Irans Achaemenid period. ...
Eleventh district The eleventh district consisted of the Caspians, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Daritae, which paid a join sum of 200 talents.
Twelfth district The twelfth district was made up of the Bactrians and all neighboring peoples as far as the Aegli, and paid 360 talents.
Thirteenth district The thirteenth district included the Pactyica, Armenians, and all the peoples as far as the Black Sea. The tax paid was 400 talents.
Fourteenth district The fourteenth district contained the Sagartians, Sarangians, Thamanaeans, Utians, Myci, and the inhabitants of the Persian Gulf islands (where prisoners or displaced people were sent). Together they payed 400 talents. Sagartians were ancient Iranian (Aryan) tribes, dwelling in Iranian plateau, whose exact location is unknown, but possibly south of Alborz Mountains and north of Yazd in central Iran. ...
Map of the Persian Gulf. ...
Fifteenth district The fifteenth district was made up of the Sacae and the [[Caspians, who paid 250 talents in taxes. The Sakas or Saka race was a group of people who lived in present day Uzbekistan around 2000 BC. The Sakas followed other Aryans into present day Iran, and returned to their original area in Central Asia. ...
Sixteenth district The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdians, and Arians, who made up the sixteenth district, payed 300 talents. Reproduction of a Parthian warrior as depicted on Trajans Column The Parthian Empire was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE. Origins Bust of Parthian soldier, Esgh-abad Museum, Turkmenia. ...
The Sogdians were an ancient people of Central Asia, who inhabited the region known to the West as Sogdiana. ...
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Seventeenth district The seventeenth district included the Paricanians and Asiatic Ethiopians who payed 400 talents.
Eighteenth district The eighteenth district comprised of the Matienians, Saspires, and Alarodians, who paid 200 talents.
Nineteenth district The Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mosynoeci, and Mares, who made up the Nineteenth district, pay 300 talents in taxes. Meshechs (Meshekhs/Mosokhs/Mushki, Mushku in Akkadian, Moschoi in Greek) were an ancient, non-Indo-European and non-Semitic, indigenous tribe of Asia Minor of the 3rd-1st millennias BC, said to be the offspring of Meshech, son of Japheth. ...
Mare may mean any of several things: A mare is a female horse. ...
Twentieth district The twentieth district was inhabited by the Indians and payed 360 talents of gold dust.
See also The Achaemenid Empire (Old Persian: HakhÄmanishiyan, هخامنشیان also frequently, the Achaemenid Persian Empire.) (559 BC–330 BC) was the first of the Persian Empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran. ...
References - Darius: List of Satrapies
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