Bactria

Note 75: W.W. Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India, rev. 3rd ed.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

36When Zhang Qian saw cloth and bamboo canes from Sichuan in Bactria of the late second century BCE, he suspected a route between Southwest China and India.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

44While some scholars turn to the emergence of shubu and qiongzhu in Bactria to suggest the west-bound migratory pattern of materials, Joseph Needham advances the Bactria alloy theory to make the same argument.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

JEFFREY BROWN: Objects from the second site show northern Afghanistan -- then called Bactria -- when it was a colony of Greece.

Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008

JEFFREY BROWN: Objects from the second site show northern Afghanistan -- then called Bactria -- when it was a colony of Greece.

More on the Exhibit of the Bactrian Hoard Jan 2008

A big-screen TV showing a three-minute loop of a big gymnasium in northern Afghanistan (the region formerly known as Bactria).

ALLABOUTGEORGE.com 2009

Wu sent armies to the far western reaches of the empire to a nation called Bactria, an area we now know as Afghanistan, where tribesmen bred a horse with unusually strong, stout front legs and posture.

xml's Blinklist.com 2008

Bessus, the satrap of Bactria and kinsmen of Darius, had arrested the Persian king with the support of another eastern satrap named Barsaentes and were fleeing with him, unharmed at present, as a captive in a wagon.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

They cut off Persia, Aria, and Drangiana from Bactria to the north and the valley of the Indus River to the east.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

It was still deep winter in the Khawak Pass as the Macedonians entered the steep valley leading into Bactria.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011