Sattagydia
| Sattagydia | |||||||||
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| Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire | |||||||||
| 513 BCE–c. 4th century BCE | |||||||||
Sāttagydiⁿa was part of the eastern territories of the Achaemenid Empire | |||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Monarchy | ||||||||
| King or King of Kings | |||||||||
• 513–499 BCE | Darius I (first) | ||||||||
• 358–338 BC | Artaxerxes III | ||||||||
| Historical era | Achaemenid era | ||||||||
| 513 BCE | |||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 4th century BCE | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Pakistan | ||||||||
Sattagydia
Sattagydia (𓐠𓂧𓎼𓍯𓍒𓈉, S-d-g-wꜣ-ḏꜣ), on the Egyptian Statue of Darius I.
Sattagydian Achaemenid soldier
Xerxes I tomb, Sattagydian soldier of the Achaemenid army, circa 480 BCE.
Xerxes I tomb, Sattagydian soldier circa 480 BCE (detail).
Sattagydia or Thatagush (Old Persian: 𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎢𐏁 Thataguš, country of the "hundred cows") was one of the easternmost regions of the Achaemenid Empire, part of its Seventh tax district according to Herodotus, along with Gandārae, Dadicae and Aparytae. It was situated east of the Sulaiman Mountains up to the Indus in the Kurram River basin around Bannu in modern day's southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sattagydia was no longer mentioned by the third century BC, probably having been absorbed into one of the adjoining provinces.