Bactria (satrapy)
Bactria (satrapy)
Eastern territories of the Achaemenid Empire, including Bactria.
Xerxes I tomb, Bactrian soldier circa 470 BC.
Bactria (
Old Persian: 𐎲𐎠𐎧𐎫𐎼𐎡𐏁 Bāxtriš) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. It was conquered between 545–540 BC by Cyrus the Great.[3]
Bactria is attested in 520 BC at the
Darius I, when the inhabitants of the Greek city of Barca, in Cyrenaica, were deported to Bactria for refusing to surrender assassins.[5] Other exiled Greeks, most of them prisoners of war, were deported to Bactria up until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 328 BC. These settlers later established the hellenistic Kingdom of Bactria.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Susa, Statue of Darius - Livius". www.livius.org.
- ISBN 9780933273955.
- ^ Olbrycht 2021, p. 45.
- ^ "Bactria". Archived from the original on 2014-07-31. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- ^ "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
- ^ "Afghanistan: Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom". 2020-12-23. Archived from the original on 2020-12-23. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
Sources
- Olbrycht, Marek Jan (2021). Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.). Brill. ISBN 978-9004460751.
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