English-German translations for satrapy

• Satrapie die
  Die Antwort lautet, weil wir das Kosovo lieber als europäisches Protektorat behalten möchten - als Satrapie wie zu osmanischen Zeiten. The answer is because we would rather keep Kosovo as a European protectorate - as a satrapy, such as it was in Ottoman times.

Definition of satrapy

• The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of Western Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sassanian Empire and Hellenistic empires

Related words

• satra
• satrap
• satrapess