Mazakes

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Mazakes († after 332 BC) was a governor ( satrap ) of the Persian Achaemenids in Egypt .

Mazakes took over the administration of Egypt when the satrap Sabakes in 333 BC. Had set out for Syria to fight Alexander the Great . After the battle of Issus , in which Sabakes was killed, the Macedonian mercenary Amyntas arrived in Egypt and claimed the governorship in the name of the great king Darius III. His Soldateska, however, plundered from Pelusium up the Nile . At Memphis , Mazakes put him in battle and killed him and most of the mercenaries.

Since Sabakes had almost all of the Persian occupation troops with him when he withdrew from Egypt, the country was closed when Alexander arrived in the autumn of 332 BC. Incapable of defense. Mazakes therefore surrendered the land and the state treasure to the conqueror without a fight. He himself moved into the allegiance of Alexander, who appointed Cleomenes of Naukratis to be his administrator in Egypt.

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SURNAME Mazakes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap of Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 332 BC Chr.