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Achaemenid satraps of Cappadocia

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Ariarathes I of Cappadocia
4th-century BC king of Cappadocia
Datames
Datames (Old Persian: Dātama or Dātāma, Aramaic: Tadanmu, ; 407 BC – 362 BC), also known as Tarkamuwa, was an Iranian military leader, who served as the governor (satrap) of the Achaemenid satrapy of Cappadocia (or Cilicia; the evidence is contradictory) from the 380s BC to 362 BC. A Carian by birth, he was the son of Camissares by a Paphlagonian mother. His father being satrap of Cilicia under Artaxerxes II, and high in the favour of that monarch, Datames became one of the king's bodyguards; and having in this capacity distinguished himself in the war against the Cadusii, was appointed to suc
Ariamnes
thumb|upright=1.37|Ariamnes was satrap of Cappadocia (satrapy)|Achaemenid Cappadocia. Ariamnes I ( Ariámnēs; fl. 4th century BC; ruled 362–350 BC) was satrap of Cappadocia under Persian suzerainty. Son of Datames and father of Ariarathes I and his brother Orophernes (Holophernes), Diodorus states that Ariamnes governed fifty years although it is unclear how this could be correct given the dates that his father Datames (ruled 385-362 BC) and his son Ariarathes I (ruled 350-331 BC) were satraps of Cappadocia.
Abistamenes
thumb|Abistamenes was Hellenistic satrap of Cappadocia. Abistamenes (fl. 4th century BC) was a governor, or satrap, of Cappadocia, or at least of its southern portions, with Ariarathes I of Cappadocia possibly governing the north. He is called Sabictas by Arrian, and was almost certainly a native Cappadocian.
Anaphas
Anaphas () was a Persian noble said to have been one of the seven Persians who slew the usurper Bardiya in 522 BCE, and to have been lineally descended from Atossa, the sister of Cambyses, who was the father of Cyrus the Great. The kings of Cappadocia traced their origin to Anaphas, who received the government of Cappadocia, free from taxes. Anaphas was succeeded by his son of the same name, and the latter by Datames.
Mithrobuzanes
thumb|upright=1.37|Mithrobuzanes was satrap of Cappadocia (satrapy)|Achaemenid Cappadocia. Mithrobuzanes (; ; d. 334 BC) was a Persian governor (satrap) of Cappadocia in the 4th century BC, during the reign of Darius III. He was probably a son of Ariarathes. As a Persian military commander he was killed at the Battle of Granicus fighting Alexander the Great.