# Talk:Darius the Great

The present edit says that Darius organized the Persian Empire into twenty provinces called satrapies. Most sources say that he really had that 20 satrapies, which refer to the major provinces (example is Babylon, who has been conquered by Cyrus the Great a generation ago.) but the 120, which has been expanded to 127 by Darius on the near end of his reign, were only minor ones. Yeah, Persia really reached its "golden age" under Darius. But, his successor, Xerxes, had lost some of these provinces due to revolts against him. 
He had 20 great satrapies. These were ruled by satraps, but being guarded by the inspectors he had established to act as Darius' "eyes and ears", to maintain the order in ruling these satrapies. You're right: they are called satrapies: but other books gave the name of "minor satrapies", which refer to the minor provinces Darius had established earlier in his reign, when he started his conquest for a bigger empire. --bubbles16_22 (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2009

Darius the Great isn't mentioned in the Book of Daniel, Darius the Mede is. The problem with Darius the Mede is that he did not exist. So stop adding the Book of Daniel to this article.
Bottom line: there is no Darius the Great in the Book of Daniel, and Wikipedia won't pretend there is. tgeorgescu (talk)  18:38, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria because there is a lot of uncited text, including entire paragraphs. Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:43, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

@History of Iran: FYI. TrangaBellam (talk) 03:28, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for pinging me, TrangaBellam. @Z1720: I'm up to the task. HistoryofIran (talk) 03:30, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
@HistoryofIran: There are still uncited paragraphs in the article. Are you or anyone else still willing to resolve these? Z1720 (talk) 15:39, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
Oh, I am so sorry. Completely forgot about this. I don't know when I can resolve this. HistoryofIran (talk) 18:58, 25 May 2025 (UTC)


### Darius the Great