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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...
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  • 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...
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    Βασιλεία τῆς Βακτριανῆς, romanized: Basileía tês Baktrianês, lit. 'Kingdom of Bactria') was a Greek state of the Hellenistic period located in Central Asia....
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    Bactria (satrapy) Bactria (Old Persian: 𐎲𐎠𐎧𐎫𐎼𐎡𐏁 Bāxtriš) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. It was conquered between 545–540 BC by Cyrus the...
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    Brahmi alphabet. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agathocles of Bactria. Indo-Greek Kingdom Greco-Buddhism Indo-Scythians The precise spans of...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • species belong to the genus Bactria: Bactria hypoleucochaeta (Bezzi, 1908) c g Bactria rhopalocera (Karsch, 1888) c g Bactria vagator (Wiedemann, 1828)...
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    The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) is the modern archaeological designation for a particular Middle Bronze Age civilisation of southern...
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    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...
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    Glyphipterix bactrias is a species of sedge moth in the genus Glyphipterix. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in New Zealand. Wikimedia...
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    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...
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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 Greek...
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    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...
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    Bactria happened during the greater Kushan conquest of Central Asia, when the Parthian Empire lost major parts of its significant province of Bactria...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Roxana (redirect from Roxana of Bactria)
    Retrieved 10 October 2019. Strabo 11.11.4. Rawlinson, Hugh G. (1912). Bactria, the History of a Forgotten Empire. p. 55 Badian 2015. Bosworth, A. B....
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    Yuezhi (section Bactria)
    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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    Achaemenids overthrew the Medes and incorporated Arachosia, Aria, and Bactria within its eastern boundaries. An inscription on the tombstone of Darius...
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    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...
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    Bessus (category Achaemenid satraps of Bactria)
    summer 329 BC), was a Persian satrap of the eastern Achaemenid satrapy of Bactria, as well as the self-proclaimed King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Tokhara Yabghus took over in 625. The Imperial Hephthalites, based in Bactria, expanded eastwards to the Tarim Basin, westwards to Sogdia and southwards...
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  • Indo-Greek kings are related as well. This tree covers all the Greek rulers of Bactria and India, from 255 B.C. to A.D. 10. This article also covers the family...
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    local culture. The Indo-Aryans religious beliefs and practices from the Bactria–Margiana culture and the native Harappan Indus beliefs of the former Indus...
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    that some of Theophilus' coins in fact belong to another ruler, in Greek Bactria, during approximately the same period. While Bopearachchi suggests c. 90...
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  • 155 BC (section Bactria)
    territories cover the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria (Panjshir and Kapisa) and extend to the modern Pakistani province of Punjab...
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    were once considered the traditional stronghold of Zoroastrianism, i.e., Bactria (see also Balkh), which is in Northern Afghanistan; Sogdiana; Margiana;...
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