Orontes I
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Orontes I was a military officer of the Achaemenid Empire and satrap of Armenia at the end of the 5th-century BC and first half of the 4th-century BC. He is notable for having led the unsuccessful Gre
Bronze coin of Orontes I, minted at Adramyteion between 357–352 BC
Coin minted by Evagoras I at Salamis
The gold coin attributed to Orontes I by some numismatists, minted at Lampsacus
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Great Satraps' Revolt
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The Great Satraps' Revolt, or the Revolts of the Satraps, was a rebellion in the Achaemenid Empire of several satraps in western Anatolia against the authority of the Great King Artaxerxes II. The Sat
Satrap Datames started to revolt in 372 BC.
Orontes, wearing the satrapal headdress, from his coinage.