![]() With a Persian garrison, tresuary and garden at Daskileion. ![]() This satrapy would have been like it's southern neighbour but at a smaller scale. In the north of Sardis was the smaller satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia with it's center at Daskyleion. It could easily have appeared to be the bustling capital of a thriving kingdom and not a province on the outer fringes of an empire. Sardis was full with Greek friends of the satrap, both a garrison of Persians and Greek merceneries, a tresuary, a large garden ( Paradiasoi) to hunt wild animals in and much more. From his satrapal capital at Sardis the satrap of Lydia collected taxes and mustuered soldiers. This satrapy was one of the most important in the empire, having previously been the centre of the Lydian empire it continued to be an important region. The most important man in Asia minor was the Persian satrap of Lydia with his capital at Sardis. Overview: The Persian empire in the Peleponnesian war.After the failed invasions of Greece by Persia the Persians continued to have a hand in greek politics, this time in the shadows with gold. In Greeks at War you will play as the satrap (governor) of Sardis/Sparda, Pissuthnes.
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