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Skudra
Skudra () was a province (satrapy) of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in Europe between 510s BC and 479 BC. Its name is attested in Persian and Egyptian inscriptions (an Egyptian record of c. 498–497 BC, and a list on the tomb of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e Rustam, c. 486 BC. It is believed to have comprised the lands now known as Thrace and Macedon.
Key facts
- Former Subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Achaemenid Thrace
- Former Subdivision.era
- Achaemenid era
- Former Subdivision.subdivision
- Satrapy
- Former Subdivision.nation
- the Achaemenid Empire
- Former Subdivision.image_map
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- Former Subdivision.image_map_caption
- Skudra was the westernmost territory of the Achaemenid Empire, comprising the area of Macedonia and Thrace, to the north of Greece
- Former Subdivision.image_flag
- Standard of Cyrus the Great (White).svg
- Former Subdivision.flag
- Flags of Persia
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- Standard of Cyrus the Great
- Former Subdivision.year_start
- 513 BCE
- Former Subdivision.year_end
- c. 465 BCE
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Skudra () was a province (satrapy) of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in Europe between 510s BC and 479 BC. Its name is attested in Persian and Egyptian inscriptions (an Egyptian record of c. 498–497 BC, and a list on the tomb of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e Rustam, c. 486 BC. It is believed to have comprised the lands now known as Thrace and Macedon.
==Name== The Old Persian name of the province, , was derived from the Scythian endonym , from which was also derived the Akkadian and Greek names for the Scythians, respectively () and (), and ().