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 tēs Baktrianēs, lit. 'Kingdom of Bactria') was a Greek state of the Hellenistic period located in Central Asia....

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...

The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) is the modern archaeological designation for a particular Middle Bronze Age civilisation of southern...

Bactria ovczinnikovii is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae. It is the sole species in genus Bactria. It is a subshrub endemic to...

was founded when the Graeco-Bactrian king Demetrius I of Bactria invaded India from Bactria in about 200 BC. The Greeks to the east of the Seleucid Empire...

BC – c. 235 BC) was the first Hellenistic king of Bactria. Diodotus was initially satrap of Bactria, but became independent of the Seleucid empire around...

now been abandoned. Osmund Bopearachchi has suggested that he ruled in Bactria and Arachosia c. 175–170 BC, but this has been challenged by later authors...

species belong to the genus Bactria: Bactria hypoleucochaeta (Bezzi, 1908) c g Bactria rhopalocera (Karsch, 1888) c g Bactria vagator (Wiedemann, 1828)...

Valley by the Wusun and migrated southward to Sogdia and later settled in Bactria. The Greater Yuezhi have consequently often been identified with peoples...

migrated from northwestern China (Xinjiang and Gansu) and settled in ancient Bactria. The founder of the dynasty, Kujula Kadphises, followed Greek cultural...

ascended the throne of Bactria in 250-230 BC. In an inscription found in the Kuliab area of Tajikistan, northeastern Greco-Bactria, and dated to 200-195...

Bactria (satrapy) Bactria (Old Persian: 𐎲𐎠𐎧𐎫𐎼𐎡𐏁 Bāxtriš) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. It was conquered between 545–540 BC by Cyrus the...

Brahmi alphabet. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agathocles of Bactria. Indo-Greek Kingdom Greco-Buddhism Indo-Scythians The precise spans of...

prosperity. His immediate successors were the last Greek kings to rule in Bactria. Eucratides was born around 210–205 BC, the son of Heliocles and Laodice...

God-Manifest") was a Greco-Bactrian king who reigned for a short time in southern Bactria or the Paropamisade during the mid 2nd century BCE. The style of Plato's...

Eastern Iranian language formerly spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria (present-day Afghanistan) and used as the official language of the Kushan...

Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) and Princess Roxana of Bactria. Alexander IV was the son of Alexander the Great (a Macedonian Greek) and...

of the Daxia" or Greco-Bactrians, a Hellenistic kingdom that was ruling Bactria at that time in today's northern Afghanistan. The Dayuan are also described...

of a Bactrian nobleman named Oxyartes, who served Bessus, the satrap of Bactria and Sogdia. He was thus probably also involved in the murder of the last...

area covering ancient Bactria. Its sites were discovered and named by the Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi (1976). Bactria was the Greek name for...

Look up Bactria or Bactrian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bactrian may refer to: Bactria, an ancient region in Central Asia, including the modern...

language, "Yavana" in Sanskrit) (reigned c. 200–167 BC), who ruled areas from Bactria to ancient northwestern India. He was the son of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom's...

and Cybele, and a syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism in Bactria and Northwest India. Scholars and historians are divided as to which event...

Greco-Bactrians at the Battle of the Arius. The Seleucids besieged the capital of Bactria until concerning news from the west of his dominions and lack of progress...

inhabitants of a location called Bahlika (Sanskrit: बह्लिक, located in Bactria), mentioned in the Atharvaveda, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, Vartikka...

Tokhara Yabghus took over in 625. The Imperial Hephthalites, based in Bactria, expanded eastwards to the Tarim Basin, westwards to Sogdia and southwards...

that some of Theophilus' coins in fact belong to another ruler, in Greek Bactria, during approximately the same period. While Bopearachchi suggests c. 90...

several cities in his new territories in the areas of the Amu Darya and Bactria, and Greek settlements further extended to the Khyber Pass, Gandhara (see...

Iranian nomads, known as Scythians, who founded kingdoms in Khwarazm, Bactria, and Sogdia in the 8th–6th centuries BC, as well as Fergana and Margiana...