Map of the easternmost Persian satrapies, including Arachosia
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Depiction of Arachosian magi carrying various gifts and animals for ritual sacrifice at Persepolis
Arachosia (/ærəˈkoʊsiə/; Greek: ἈραχωσίαArachōsíā), or Harauvatis (Old Persian: 𐏃𐎼𐎢𐎺𐎫𐎡𐏁Harauvatiš), was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire.[1][2] Mainly centred around the Arghandab River,[3] a tributary of the Helmand River, it extended as far east as the Indus river.[4][5] The satrapy's Persian-language name is the etymological equivalent of Sárasvatī in Vedic Sanskrit.[1] In Greek, the satrapy's name was derived from Arachōtós, the Greek-language name for the Arghandab River.[1] Around 330 BCE, Alexander the Great commissioned the building of Alexandria Arachosia as Arachosia's new capital city under the Macedonian Empire. It was built on top of an earlier Persian military fortress after Alexander's conquest of Persia, and is the site of today's Kandahar in Afghanistan.[1]
^ abcdFoundation, Encyclopaedia Iranica (14 May 2022). "Arachosia". iranicaonline.org.
^Inc, IBP (1 August 2013). Afghanistan Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments. Lulu.com. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-4387-7372-8. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^Howard, Michael C. (10 January 2014). Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies: The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel. McFarland. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-7864-9033-2. ... Arachosia (modern Arghandab district in Afghanistan and neighboring areas of southeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan).
^Becking, Bob (4 August 2020). Identity in Persian Egypt: The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine. Penn State Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-64602-074-4. Arachosia is a mountainous area in which is now the border territory between Afghanistan and Pakistan...
^Samad, Rafi U. (2011). The Grandeur of Gandhara: The Ancient Buddhist Civilization of the Swat, Peshawar, Kabul and Indus Valleys. Algora Publishing. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-87586-858-5. Arachosia, covering an area from Kandahar and Quetta to the western bank of the Indus, shared its northern boundary with Gandhara.
Arachosia (/ærəˈkoʊsiə/; Greek: Ἀραχωσία Arachōsíā), or Harauvatis (Old Persian: 𐏃𐎼𐎢𐎺𐎫𐎡𐏁 Harauvatiš), was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. Mainly...
Alexandria in Arachosia (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἀραχωσίας) also known as Alexandropolis (Ἀλεξανδρόπολις) was a city in ancient times that is now called Kandahar...
person. He spent time at the court of Sibyrtius, who was a satrap of Arachosia under Antigonus I and then Seleucus I. Megasthenes was then an ambassador...
Greek name Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἀραχωσίας (Alexandria of Arachosia). The city was named as Alexandria in Arachosia after the invasion of Alexander the Great in 330...
(Ancient Greek: Δημητριάπολις) or Demetrias (Δημητριάς) was a Greek city in Arachosia, thought to have been founded by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius as...
from Arachosia to Persia: thus the Avesta would have arrived in Persia through Arachosia in the 6th century B.C. [...] Alltough [...] Arachosia would...
names of the following: Arachosia, an ancient region in south Afghanistan the Arghandab River flowing through it Alexandria Arachosia, the main city in the...
Strait of Hormuz. It is directly to the south of the countries of Bactria, Arachosia and Drangiana, to the east of the country of Carmania and due west of...
authority and was transformed into an empire, which encompassed Drangiana, Arachosia, and Gandhara. He is generally known from the Acts of Thomas, the Takht-i-Bahi...
Avestan text corpus was composed in the ancient Iranian satrapies of Arachosia, Aria, Bactria, and Margiana, corresponding to the entirety of present-day...
2020-06-16. "Parthian Stations". Vendidad 1, at Avesta.org Beyond is Arachosia, 36 schoeni. And the Parthians call this White India; there are the city...
Apollodotus I, King of Paropamisade, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Punjab (c.180–160 BC) Antimachus II, King of Paropamisadae, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Punjab (c.172–167...
Arachosians. Suzdal is deceived and turns his ship towards the planet Arachosia and reenters hibernation. When he arrives he learns the horrible truth...
Safavids, Hotaks, and the Durranis. It was one of the main cities of Arachosia, a historical region sitting in Greater Iran's southeastern lands and...
ornamentation from Ionia, the ivory from Ethiopia and from Sindh and from Arachosia. The stone-cutters who wrought the stone were Ionians and Sardians. The...
Alexander through Media, Parthia, Aria (West Afghanistan), Drangiana, Arachosia (South and Central Afghanistan), Bactria (North and Central Afghanistan)...
the area was occupied by Iranian peoples Eventually a kingdom known as Arachosia was formed, parts of which were ruled by the Medes by 600 BC. The Medes...
Greco-Bactrians. Demetrius may have first started to recover the province of Arachosia, an area south of the Hindu Kush already inhabited by many Greeks but...
'Seleucid' Cappadocia, Persis, Parthia, Bactria, Arabia, Tapouria, Sogdia, Arachosia, Hyrcania, and other adjacent peoples that had been subdued by Alexander...
330 BCE Gedrosia, c. 542 – c. 330 BCE Gandhara, c. 518 – c. 330 BCE Arachosia, c. 518 – c. 330 BCE Hindush, c. 517 – c. 330 BCE Sattagydia, c. 516 –...
Iranian text, whose area of composition comprised -- at least -- Sīstån/Arachosia, Herat, Merw and Bactria.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of...
grandees, such as the chiliarch Nabarzanes, and Barsaentes, the satrap of Arachosia–Drangiana. Together they arrested Darius III in mid-330 BC, with Bessus...
Chandragupta received the satrapies of Paropamisadae (Kamboja and Gandhara) and Arachosia (Kandahar) and Gedrosia (Balochistan). Seleucus I received the 500 war...
absorbed into this empire. Seleucus was defeated and the lands of Aria, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Gedrosia were ceded to the Mauryans in exchange for a matrimonial...
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