Editing Satrap (section)

===Seleucid===
{{Further|Partition of Babylon|Partition of Triparadisus}}
[[File:Diadochi satraps babylon.png|thumb|right|The satraps appointed by Alexander the Great during his campaign]]
[[Image:Baydad.jpg|thumb|left|[[Bagadates I]] (Minted 290–280 BC), the first indigenous satrap to be appointed by the [[Seleucid Empire]]<ref>{{cite book| first= Otto |last= Mørkholm| title= Early Hellenistic Coinage: From the Accession of Alexander to the Peace of Apamea| publisher= Cambridge University Press| year= 1991| page= 73f| isbn= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first1= John |last1= Curtis| first2= Nigel | last2= Tallis | first3= Béatrice |last3= André-Salvini| title= Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia| year= 2005 |at=pp. 258–59, fig. 454, Silver tetradrachm of Bagadates}}</ref>]]
The satrapic administration and title were retained—even for Greco-Macedonian incumbents—by [[Alexander the Great]], who conquered the Achaemenid Empire, and by his successors, the [[Diadochi]] (and their dynasties) who carved it up, especially in the [[Seleucid Empire]], where the satrap generally was designated as ''[[strategos]]'' (in other words, military generals); but their provinces were much smaller than under the Persians. They would ultimately be replaced by conquering empires, especially the [[Parthian Empire|Parthians]].