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What (who) is SATRAP - definition
RULER OF A PROVINCE IN ANCIENT PERSIA
Satrapies; Satrapy; Satraps; Mahakshatrapa; Kshatrapa; Hyparch; Hyparchs
![Achaemenid Satrap [[Autophradates]] receiving visitors, on the [[Tomb of Payava]], circa 380 BC](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Achaemenid Satrap Autophradates with visitors Payava tomb.jpg?width=200 "Achaemenid Satrap [[Autophradates]] receiving visitors, on the [[Tomb of Payava]], circa 380 BC")
![Achaemenid Lydia]], 388–380 BC](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CILICIA, Mallos. Tiribazos. Satrap of Lydia, 388-380 BC.jpg?width=200 "Achaemenid Lydia]], 388–380 BC")
![Magnesia]], circa 465–459 BC](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Themistokles. Circa 465-459 BC.jpg?width=200 "Magnesia]], circa 465–459 BC")
![Western Satrap]]" [[Nahapana]], circa 120 CE](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nahapana.jpg?width=200 "Western Satrap]]\" [[Nahapana]], circa 120 CE")
![Banquet scene of a Satrap, on the "Sarcophagus of the Satrap", [[Sidon]], 4th century BC](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Satrap sarcophagus banquet scene.jpg?width=200 "Banquet scene of a Satrap, on the \"Sarcophagus of the Satrap\", [[Sidon]], 4th century BC")
Satrap
·noun The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
satrap
n.
[Persian.]
1.
Governor, viceroy, ruler.
2.
Prince, petty despot.
satrap
['satrap]
¦ noun
1. a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.
2. a subordinate or local ruler.
Origin
ME: from OFr. satrape or L. satrapa, based on Old Pers. ksathra-pavan 'country-protector'.
Wikipedia
Satrap
A satrap () was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
A satrap served as a viceroy to the king, though with considerable autonomy. The word came to suggest tyranny or ostentatious splendour, and in modern usage refers to any subordinate or local ruler, usually with unfavourable connotations of corruption.
A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap.
Examples of use of SATRAP
1. Bush‘s appointed satrap, Paul Bremer, executed the blueprint faithfully during his dictatorial rule in Baghdad.
2. Maharaja Gulab Singh, became the new satrap after the British sold him Kashmir––the region east of the River Indus and west of the River—for Rs 75 lakh.
3. Mr Blair is at heart a true believer in the European ‘project‘. With his satrap Peter Mandelson constantly tugging him Brussels–wards, his instinct is with the EU political establishment, not the sceptical British voter.
4. Did Number 10 hope that people might make a contrast between the Chancellor who sends out his satrap to face the music and the Prime Minister‘s readiness to feel the pain of those who have suffered?
5. Aliyev, who inherited power from his father –– a satrap of the Soviet Union –– has teetered between installing his own dictatorship and promising to liberalize the political system along Western lines.