History of Persian Egypt
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The history of Persian Egypt refers to the two periods when ancient Egypt was controlled by the Achaemenid Empire:
- Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt (525–404 BC), established by the first Achaemenid conquest of Egypt.
- Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt (343–332 BC), established by the second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt.
These two periods of satrapies were punctuated by a brief interval of Egyptian independence from 404 BC to 343 BC.