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Districts of the Achaemenid Empire

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Districts of the Achaemenid Empire

Herodotus divided the Achaemenid Empire into 20 districts. The following is a description of the ethnic makeup of the districts and the amount they paid in taxes, translated from Herodotus' Histories.

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