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Ptolemaic Government Types

{type1lvl2_numidia} Ptolemaic Neilous Nomarchies
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Ptolemaic Nomarchy\n(requires Homeland Government Resource)\n\nThis rich, fertile territory is one of the strongholds and political centers of the vast Ptolemaic Kingdom. It is productive, loyal, and garrisoned by a variety of superior local levies, mercenaries, and klerouchs. Egyptians and Hellenes freely interact as the dynasty makes inroads with powerful local priesthoods. Large harvests significantly increase trade with any regions seeking to buy bulk grain. Fine political institutions ensure an orderly society, but social restrictions and citizenship limitations effectively reduce population growth. All troops traditional to this region may be trained here. Only the best troops serve in Ptolemaic armies, providing all incoming troops with a modicum of experience. Wealthy and prosperous from large harvests, and blessed with fine political institutions, they are the bulwarks of Ptolemaic power.\n\nHISTORICAL NOTES: Ptolemaios I acquired the bountiful Aigyptian Satrapies after the death of his commander, Megas Alexandros. The former general founded a dynastic kingdom including many cities founded by the great conqueror. Their culture and design gave tribute to the Hellenic customs espoused by Alexandros himself. They married many elements of the ancient Hellenic Polis with the new administrative practices of his former Somatophylax and its vast holdings.\n\nThe Ptolemies administered the nomes under their direct control in the millennia-old traditional unit of local district governments. Elements of Hellenic culture and Makedonian government were strongest in these places. They were frequently administered by their historical progenitors, although such men were occasionally supplanted by Hellenized natives, prominent Egyptians, members of the highly cooperative native High Priesthoods, former Persian officials, and the occasional resettled Jew.
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The Ptolemaic Nomarchy is slow to establish in a Ptolemaic Homeland province but boasts all building and troop types.

{type2lvl2_numidia} Hyparcheia Ptolemaia
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Ptolemaic Hyparchy \n(requires Expansion Government Resource)\n\nA corps of royal dioketes assists the regional government in vital matters: ensuring the flow of substantial tax revenue, levying competent auxiliaries, and garrisoning frontier outposts with local troops (many of whom had prospects of gaining their own parcel of land in the Ptolemaic klerouchies). Despite any shortcomings, the Ptolemies can count on the hyparchy for a variety of superb military and economic provisions, with only minor native resentment to mar it.\n\nHISTORICAL NOTES: With his claim to the Nile Delta and its supporting regions comfortably enforced, Ptolemy I organized his vast conquered territories in traditional Makedonian-style hyparchies among the territories of Southern Anatolia, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, dozens of island strongholds off the Greek coast, and much of Eastern Libya. Despite a divided culture, the klerouchies were the most well-settled, productive, and loyal provinces of the Ptolemaic Kingdom outside of Delta strongholds. With the cream of the army near Alexandreia and the Fayyum, the Hellenistic influence within hyparchies was often stunted due to the number of settled Galatians, Libyans, and of any number of other foreign peoples. Much precedent existed for cooperation, and the earliest Ptolemaic hyparchies commanded largely Hellenized populations.
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A Ptolemaic Hyparchy allows for most building and troop types in an Epeirote Expansion province.

{type3_numidia} Nomos Symmachos Emphrouros
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Firmly Controlled Allied Region\n\nThis region may lack key elements of a central government, such as a military or commercial infrastructure. It may even lack political and cultural cohesion, perhaps resulting from Ptolemaic conquest against its own unsatisfactory leaders. What it does possess is extensive farmland, heavy tax farming, and a healthy respect for Ptolemaic garrisons. The province can field a modest fighting force if required.\n\nHISTORICAL NOTES: The well-garrisoned Ptolemaic acquisitions lay south and west of the Neilos Delta, and in some cases across the Red Sea.
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Firmly Controlled Allied Regions retain most troop types but offer little building selection.

{type4_numidia} Nomos Symmachos Hemiautonomos
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Semiautonomous Allied State\n\nThe native population makes little cultural accommodation to the dynasty. It is not known for its loyalty to the Ptolemies, though neither is it particularly disloyal. It is allowed to place its own leaders at the civic forefront in return for substantial tribute paid on all trade profit. The resident governor cannot expect strong military provisions, the dynasty’s requirement for experienced soldiers ensures that troops levied from the region are already blooded in local matters.\n\nHISTORICAL NOTES: With the agents and allies of the Diadochi roaming the Mediterranean, the leaders of regions like these often found it in their best interests to make common cause with a particular dynast - willingly or otherwise. The typical allied state was geographically separated from its benefactors, located as far away as Southern Anatolia and even mainland Hellas.\n\nSTRATEGY: It is better to establish Ptolemaic Allied States in regions with large populations and advanced buildings rather than small towns with limited development.
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Semiautonomous Allied States quickly provide economic benefits but offer minimal troop and building selection.