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Bactria (/ˈbæktriə/; Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an
ancient Iranian civilization in
Central Asia
based in the area
south of the Oxus River...
- Βασιλεία τῆς Βακτριανῆς, romanized: Basileía tês Baktrianês, lit. 'Kingdom of
Bactria') was a Gr****
state of the ****enistic
period located in South-Central...
- The
Bactria–Margiana
Archaeological Complex (BMAC) is the
modern archaeological designation for a
particular Middle Bronze Age
civilisation of southern...
- Look up
Bactria in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Bactria was an
ancient region of
Central Asia
centred on the city of Balk (Bactra) in present-day...
- was
founded when the Graeco-Bactrian king
Demetrius I of
Bactria invaded India from
Bactria in
about 200 BC. The Gr****s to the east of the
Seleucid Empire...
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Valley by the
Wusun and
migrated southward to
Sogdia and
later settled in
Bactria. The
Greater Yuezhi have
consequently often been
identified with peoples...
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migrated from
northwestern China (Xinjiang and Gansu) and
settled in
ancient Bactria. The
founder of the dynasty,
Kujula Kadphises,
followed Iranian and Gr****...
- born as the
daughter of a
Bactrian nobleman named Oxyartes, the
satrap of
Bactria and Sogdia, who
served Bessus, and thus
probably also
involved in the murder...
- Greco-Bactrian king and the
founder of the Indo-Gr**** kingdom, who
ruled areas from
Bactria to
ancient northwestern India. He was the son of the Greco-Bactrian ruler...
- BC – c. 235 BC) was the
first ****enistic king of
Bactria.
Diodotus was
initially satrap of
Bactria, but
became independent of the
Seleucid empire around...
