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 Assyria in the Achaemenid Empire, 500 BCE. | |||||||||
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Achaemenid Syria was the portion of the Near East known in antiquity as Syria and governed under the Persian Achaemenid Empire as the Satrapy of Eber-Nari. Recorded Achaemenid satraps of Syria included Megabyzus, Belesys I and Belesys II. The administrative convention of governing the Persian region of Syria as a satrapy also continued under Macedonian rule following the conquests of Alexander the Great. [1]
