The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.

(possibly Median?) - "protector of the Kingdom". The local ruler, usually a member of the royal family, they had full powers to impose laws and collect taxes.

a governor of a province in ancient Persia

a provincial governor in the Old Persian Empire and has come in modern times to be a symbol of a colonial like exercise of power

A Persian provincial governor who answered to the king. Notable examples include Artaphernes and his son.

a governor who was directly responsible to the king and was usually taken from the Median and Persian nobility to govern the satrapy. (p. 47)

Satrap was the name given to the governors of the provinces of ancient Median and Persian Achaemenid empires and in several of their heirs, the Sassanid and later Hellenistic empires.