These are the provinces of the Empire mentioned by the historian
Herodotus:
1.
The Ionians, the Magnesians in Asia, the Aeolians, Carians,
Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians contributed together a total sum
of 400 talents of silver.
2.
The Mysians, Lydians, Lasonians, Cabalians, and Hytennians, 500
talents.
3.
The people on the southern shore of the Hellespont, the Phrygians,
the Thracians of Asia, the Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and
Syrians, 360 talents.
4.
The Cilicians paid 500 talents of silver, together with 360 white
horses (one for each day in the year); of the money, 140 talents
were used to maintain the cavalry force which guarded Cilicia, and
the remaining 360 went to Darius.
5.
From the town of Posidium, which was founded by Amphilochus, son of
Amphiaraus, on the border between Cilicia and Syria, as far as
Egypt - omitting Arabian territory, which was free of tax, came 350
talents. This province contains the whole of Phoenicia and that
part of Syria which is called Palestine, and Cyprus.
6.
Egypt, together with the Libyans on the border and the towns of
Cyrene and Barca (both included in the province of Egypt) paid 700
talents, in addition to the money from the fish in Lake Moeris, and
the 120,000 bushels of grain allowed to the Persian troops and
their auxiliaries who were stationed in the White Castle at
Memphis.
7.
The Sattagydians, Gandarians, Dadicae, and Aparytae paid a joint
tax of 170 talents.
8.
Susa, with the rest of Cissia - 300 talents.
9.
Babylon and Assyria - 1000 talents of silver and 500 eunuch
boys.
10. Ecbatana and the rest of Media, with the Paricanians and
Orthocorybantes - 450 talents.
11. Caspians, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Daritae - a joint sum of
200 talents.
12. The Bactrians and their neighbors as far as the Aegli 360
talents.
13. Sakâ tigrakhaudâ. Relief from the eastern stairs of the Apadana
at Persepolis. Pactyica, together with the Armenians and their
neighbors as far as the Black Sea - 400 talents.
14. The Sagartians, Sarangians, Thamanaeans, Utians, Myci, together
with the inhabitants of the islands in the Persian gulf where the
king sends prisoners and others displaced from their homes in war -
600 talents.
15. The Sacae and Caspians - 250 talents.
16. The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdians, and Arians -300
talents.
17. The Paricanians and Asiatic Ethiopians - 400 talents.
18. The Matienians, Saspires, and Alarodians - 200 talents.
19. The Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mosynoeci, and Mares - 300
talents.
20. The Indians, the most populous nation in the known world, paid
the largest sum: 360 talents of gold-dust.
