Sattagydia

Sattagydia
๐Žฐ๐Žซ๐Žฆ๐Žข๐
Sฤttagydiโฟa  (Old Persian)
Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire
513 BCEโ€“c.โ€‰4th century BCE
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Sฤttagydiโฟa was part of the eastern territories of the Achaemenid Empire
History
Government
 โ€ข TypeMonarchy
King or
King of Kings
 
โ€ข 513โ€“499 BCE
Darius I (first)
โ€ข 358โ€“338 BC
Artaxerxes III
Historical eraAchaemenid era
โ€ข Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley
513 BCE
โ€ข Disestablished
c.โ€‰4th century BCE
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Achaemenid Empire
Macedonian Empire
Today part of Pakistan
Sattagydia
Sattagydia (๐“ ๐“‚ง๐“Žผ๐“ฏ๐“’๐“ˆ‰, S-d-g-w๊œฃ-แธ๊œฃ), on the Egyptian Statue of Darius I.[1][2]
Sattagydian Achaemenid soldier
Xerxes I tomb, Sattagydian soldier of the Achaemenid army, circa 480 BCE.[3][4]
Xerxes I tomb, Sattagydian soldier circa 480 BCE (detail).
The name for Sattagydia (๐Žฐ๐Žซ๐Žฆ๐Žข๐, Thataguลก) in the DNa inscription of Darius I.

Sattagydia (Old Persian: ๐Žฐ๐Žซ๐Žฆ๐Žข๐ Thataguลก, country of the "hundred cows") was one of the easternmost places of the Achaemenid Empire[5] along with Gandฤrae, Dadicae and Aparytae.[6][7][8] It was located east of the Sulaiman Mountains up to the Indus River in the basin around Bannu in modern day's southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[9]

References

  1. โ†‘ "Susa, Statue of Darius - Livius". www.livius.org.
  2. โ†‘ Yar-Shater, Ehsan (1982). Encyclopaedia Iranica. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 10. ISBN 9780933273955.
  3. โ†‘ Naqs-e Rostam โ€“ Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  4. โ†‘ Naqs-e Rostam โ€“ Encyclopaedia Iranica List of nationalities of the Achaemenid military with corresponding drawings.
  5. โ†‘ Herodotus III 91, III 94
  6. โ†‘ Mitchiner, Michael (1978). The ancient & classical world, 600 B.C.-A.D. 650. Hawkins Publications ; distributed by B. A. Seaby. p. 44. ISBN 9780904173161.
  7. โ†‘ Jigoulov, Vadim S. (2016), The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires, Routledge, p. 21, ISBN 978-1-134-93809-4
  8. โ†‘ Eggermont, Alexander's Campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan 1975.
  9. โ†‘ Fleming, Achaemenid Sattagydia 1982, p. 105.