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Having done these things in Persia, he divided his dominions into twenty provinces, which they call satrapies;1 and having divided his dominions and appointed governors, he instructed each people to pay him tribute, consolidating neighboring peoples and distributing outlying peoples among different provinces, passing over those adjoining.

1 On the following list see the introduction to this book.

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