
	Where results make sense

Topic: Bactrian Empire

Related Topics

Bactrian camels

Greco Bactrian

Bactrian Empire

Byzantine Empire

British Empire

Order of the British Empire

German Empire

Constantine I of the Roman Empire

Russian Empire

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

The Galactic Empire

Austro Hungarian Empire

In the News (Fri 5 Dec 08)

Sean Avery

Aston Villa

Dalai Lama

Stephen Harper

UEFA Cup

Jim Martin

Higher Education

Manny Pacquiao

De La Hoya

Bill Richardson

	Bactrian camel
		Bactrian camels are extremely adept at withstanding wide variations in temperature - from freezing cold to blistering heat.
		Bactrian camels are said to be good swimmers.
		The population density of wild Bactrian camels is calculated to be 5 animals per 100 square kilometers.
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Camelus_bactrianus.html (482 words)

	Indo-BactrianEmpire.htm
		Bactria (Zariaspa) was an ancient country lying between the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (Present day Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan).
		Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE conquered Bactria and it remained under Persian rule for the next 200 years as a Bactrian Satrapy.
		Bactrian coins were imitations of Greek issues, but gradually acquired a style of their own.
	www.worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C3/India/IndoBactrians/IndoBactrianEmpire.htm (328 words)

	Bactria - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But a great Bactrian empire certainly never existed; the Bactrians and their neighbours were in old times ruled by petty local kings, one of whom was Vishtaspa, the protector of Zoroaster.
		Whether Bactria formed part of the Median empire, we do not know; but it was subjugated by Cyrus and from then formed one of the satrapies of the Persian empire.
		But when the Sassanian empire was overthrown by the Arabs, the conquerors immediately advanced eastwards, and in a few years Bactria and the whole Iran to the banks of the Jaxartes had submitted to the rule of the caliph and of Islam.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bactria (1363 words)

	Bactria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bactrian language is an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family.
		The Bactrians are one of the ancestral lines of the modern-day Pashtuns Pakhtoon or Pakrian and Tajik of Central Asia.
		The Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius crossed the Hindu Kush and began the conquest of Northern Afghanistan and the Indus valley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bactria (1359 words)

	bactrian - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about bactrian
		The bactrian has a head and body length of about 3 m/10 ft, and is about 2.1 m/6.8 ft tall at the shoulder.
		Most bactrian camels are domesticated and are used as beasts of burden in central Asia.
		In April 2001, Chinese and British researchers established that there is a 3% difference between the DNA of the wild bactrian and that of its domestic counterpart, indicating that they may in fact be separate species.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bactrian (256 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Bactria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Whether Bactria formed part of the Median empire, we do not know; but it was subjugated by Cyrus and from then formed one of the satrapies of the Persian empire.
		Diodotus and his successors were able to maintain themselves against the attacks of the Seleucids; and when Antiochus III the Great, had been defeated by the Romans (190 BC), the Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius crossed the Hindu Kush and began the conquest of eastern Iran and the Indus valley.
		The weakness of the Graeco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, but then its emergence, isolated thousands of miles from Greece, could only be described as a paradox.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ba/Bactria (594 words)

	Seleucid Empire - Information from Reference.com
		At its greatest extent, the Empire comprised central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, Turkmenistan, Pamir and the Indus valley.
		The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person of Perdiccas in 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, who thereby became satraps, at the Partition of Babylon in 323 BC.
		Alexander's generals (the Diadochi) jostled for supremacy over parts of his empire, and Ptolemy, one of his generals and satrap of Egypt, was the first to challenge the new rule, leading to the demise of Perdiccas.
	www.reference.com /search?q=Seleucid+Empire (2167 words)

	Silk Road - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Domestication of the Bactrian camel and use of the horse for means of transport then followed (see Domestication of the horse).
		The heyday of the Silk Road corresponds to that of the Byzantine Empire in its west end, Sassanid Empire Period to Il Khanate Period in the Nile-Oxus section and Three Kingdoms to Yuan Dynasty in the Sinitic zone in its east end.
		Accompanying the crystallization of regional states was the decline of nomad power, partly due to the devastation of the Black Death and partly due to the encroachment of sedentary civilizations equipped with gunpowder.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Silk_Route (4836 words)

	Bactrian_Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius crossed the Hindu Kush and began the conquest of Northern Afghanistan and the Indus valley.
		The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi (who later became known as Kushans), who had conquered Daxia (= Bactria) by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian, c.
		By the time Zhang Xian visited Ta-Hia, there were no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi, who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus.
	www.yournursery.com /search.php?title=Bactrian_Empire (1137 words)

	Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, contacts were kept with his Greek neighbours in the Seleucid Empire, Chandragupta received the daughter of the Seleucid king Seleucus I after a peace treaty, therefore probably creating a dynastic alliance, and several Greeks, such as the historian Megasthenes, resided at the Mauryan court.
		It has been suggested that the invasion of India was intended to show their support for the Mauryan empire, and to protect the Buddhist faith from the religious persecutions of the Sungas.
		Having left the Bactrian territory, he is technically the last Greco-Bactrian king, although several of his descendants, moving beyond the Hindu Kush, would form the western part of the Indo-Greek kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom (3619 words)

	ideofact: Bactria
		Bactrian, the ancient language of Bactria in northern Afghanistan, is unique among the Iranian languages in being written by means of the Greek alphabet --- a legacy of the conquest of Bactria by Alexander the Great in the 4th cent.
		A crucial moment in the history of this language was the decision of the Kushan ruler Kanishka to adopt Bactrian as the language of his coinage.
		Even after the collapse of the Kushan empire, Bactrian continued in use for at least six centuries, as is shown by the ninth-century inscriptions from the Tochi valley in Pakistan and the remnants of Buddhist and Manichean manuscripts found as far away as the Turfan oasis in western China.
	www.ideofact.com /archives/000432.html (340 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Menander I
		His territories covered the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria (from the areas of the Panjshir and Kapisa) and extended to the modern Pakistani province of Punjab with diffuse tributaries to the south and east, probably as far as Mathura.
		Generous findings of coins testify to the prosperity and extension of his empire (with finds as far as Britain): the finds of his coins are the most numerous and the most widespread of all the Indo-Greek kings.
		Consistently with this perspective, the actual depiction of the Buddha would be a later phenomenon, usually dated to the 1st century, emerging from the sponsorship of the syncretic Kushan Empire and executed by Greek, and, later, Indian and possibly Roman artists.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Menander-I (8158 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Demetrius I of Bactria
		In his "Parthian stations", Isidorus of Charax mentions a colony named Demetrias, supposedly founded by Demetrius himself: Arachosia is the ancient name of an area that corresponds to the southern part of today s Afghanistan, around the city of Kandahar.
		Justin mentions him being defeated by the Bactrian king Eucratides, an event which took place at the end of the latters reign, possibly around 150 BCE.
		Allegiance: Magadhan Empire Rank: Emperor Succeeded by: Dasaratha Maurya Reign: 273 BC-232 BC Place of birth: Pataliputra, India Battles/Wars Kalinga War Emperor Ashoka the Great (Devanagari: à¤…à¤¶à¥‹à¤•(:); IAST transliteration:, pronunciation:) (304 BCâ€“232 BC) (Imperial Title:Devanampiya Piyadassi ie He who is the beloved of the Gods who, in...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Demetrius_I_of_Bactria (4268 words)

	Suchmaschine
		The Bactrian language is an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family.
		The Bactrians are one of the ancestral lines of the modern-day Tajiks of northern Afghanistan and Central Asia and possibly some Pashtuns may have descended from them.
		It is not known whether Bactria formed part of the Median Empire, but it was subjugated by Cyrus the Great, and from then formed one of the satrapies of the Persian empire.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Bactria (1542 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
		However, contacts were kept with his Greek neighbours in the Seleucid Empire, a dynastic alliance or the recognition of intermarriage between Greeks and Indians were established (described as an agreement on Epigamia in Ancient sources), and several Greeks, such as the historian Megasthenes, resided at the Mauryan court.
		Some historians suggest that the invasion of India was intended to show their support for the Mauryan empire, and to protect the Buddhist faith from the religious persecutions of the Sungas as alleged by Buddhist scriptures (Tarn).
		Having left the Bactrian territory, he is technically the last Greco-Bactrian king, although several of his descendants, moving beyond the Hindu Kush, would form the western part of the Indo-Greek kingdom.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom (3499 words)

	Bactria Summary
		The Bactrian language is an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family.
		The Bactrians are one of the ancestral lines of the modern-day Pashtuns Pakhtoon or Pakrian and Tajik of Central Asia.
		The Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius crossed the Hindu Kush and began the conquest of Northern Afghanistan and the Indus valley.
	www.bookrags.com /Bactria (1797 words)

	The Achaemenids
		According to the official story, the Achaemenid or Persian empire was founded by Cyrus the Great, who became king of Persis in 559 BCE and defeated his overlord
		After the second coup in one year, many provinces of the Achaemenid empire revolted; the most important rebellions were those of Phraortes of Media and Nidintu-Bêl of Babylonia.
		To the north of the Achaemenid empire, the
	www.livius.org /aa-ac/achaemenians/achaemenians.html (736 words)

	Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Definition, explanation
		To the north, Euthydemus also ruled Sogdiana and Ferghana, and there are indications that from Alexandria Eschate the Greco-Bactrians may have led expeditions as far as Kashgar and Urumqi in Chinese Turkestan, leading to the first known contacts between China and the West around 220 BCE.
		Several statuettes and representations of Greek soldiers have been found north of the Tien Shan, on the doorstep to China, and are today on display in the Xinjiang museum at Urumqi (Boardman).
		Their dynasty was probably thrown out of Bactria after 170 BC by the new king Eucratides, but remained in the Indian domains of the empire at least until the 150s BCE.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gr/greco_bactrian_kingdom.php (1635 words)

	Bactrian Camels and Bactrian-Dromedary Hybrids
		The term “Bactrian” was first applied to two-humped camels by Aristotle, who wrote of “the two species of camel, Bactrian and Arabian” (Historia Animalium 2.1 [498b9]) and noted that “The Bactrian camel differs from the Arabian in having two humps as against the latter’s one” (Historia Animalium 2.1 [499a15-17]).
		We have no idea where Aristotle got the designation “Bactrian” for the domesticated, two-humped camel, but he seems to have been responsible for introducing a term into the literature which should never have been applied to a mammal that was almost certainly domesticated outside of the region with which it is popularly associated.
		The raison d’être behind the Assyrian interest in the Bactrian camel, and behind its later occurrence as far west as Anatolia, lies in the breeding of Bactrian-dromedary hybrids, the strength of which was un-surpassed by any other domestic animal, apart from the elephant, in the ancient Near East.
	www.silk-road.com /newsletter/vol3num1/7_bactrian.php (5282 words)

	Sassanide Empire
		We have glanced very transitorily at the Hellenized Bactrian and Seleucid monarchies that flourished in the eastern half of Alexander's area of conquest for three centuries, and told how the Parthians came down into Mesopotamia in the last century B. We have described the battle of Carrhae and the end of Crassus.
		This new Sassanid Empire immediately became aggressive, and under Sapor I, the son and successor of Ardashir, took Antioch.
		An indecisive peace was concluded between the two exhausted empires a year or so later, restoring their old boundaries; and the true cross was sent back to Heraclius, who replaced it in Jerusalem with much pomp and ceremony.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/outline-history-53.shtml (979 words)

	Old Balkh
		Paktra; the classical writers named it Bactria, and after the conquests of Islam it has come to be called Balkh; a northern province of modern Afghanistan, which boarders to the north, the river Oxus and the former USSR.
		Bactria was the center from which other parts of the empire could be checked.For example, Bactria was a block to the northern barbers, and a policeman in central Asia and had easy access to the northern, eastern and western provinces.
		Bactra the sacred city and the capital of Bactria was the last of the Persian Empire's provinces to fall.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/old_balkh.html (2065 words)

	Tajikistan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Persian Samanid Empire supplanted the Arabs and built the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, which became the cultural centers of Tajiks.
		In the 19th century, the Russian Empire began to spread into Central Asia during the Great Game, and it took control of Tajikistan.
		Although the Tajik and Uzbek are now classified as separate ethnic groups, on account of their languages, this is a relatively new phenomenon and originates from the conquest of Central Asia by the Russian Empire in the 19th century.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tajikistan (1720 words)

	Archaeologists strke gold as Afghan treasure emerges from hiding place
		Now, what is known as the Bactrian gold - 20,600 pieces of gold jewellery, funeral ornaments and personal belongings from 2000-year-old burial mounds - has emerged from hiding intact, a shimmering example of the heights scaled by ancient Afghan culture.
		This was once the centre of the Bactrian empire, which stretched from the city of Balkh (the ancient Bactra) across northern Afghanistan.
		To Dark Age cultists for whom tents are mansions and mud-brick huts are fortresses, the skills of a locksmith are infidel sorcery.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1160026/posts (1016 words)

	Ai-Khanoum - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Overall, Aï-Khanoum was extremely important Greek city (1.5 sq kilometer), characteristic of the Seleucid Empire and then the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.
		Lastly, its location at the junction between Bactrian territory and nomad territories to the north, ultimately allowed access to commerce with the Chinese empire.
		The invading Indo-European nomads from the north (the Scythians and then the Yuezhi) crossed the Oxus and submerged Bactria about 135 B.C. It seems the city was totally abandoned between 130-120 BC following the Yuezhi invasion.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ai-Khanoum (352 words)

	Definition of Greco-Bactrians
		The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was founded by the Seleucid military governor of Bactria Diodotus around 250 BCE when he wrestled independence for his territory from the Seleucid Empire.
		There are indications that from Alexandria Eschate the Greco-Bactrians may have led expeditions as far as Kashgar and Urumqi in Chinese Turkestan, leading to the first known contacts between China and the West around 200 BCE.
		Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus, started an invasion of India from 180 BCE, a few years after the Mauryan empire had been overthrown by the Sunga dynasty, under which Buddhism was persecuted.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Greco-Bactrians (1390 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)