Bactria (afg)

Bactria

Bactria ranks 1,214th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Umeå, Ploiești, and Horsens. Memorable people born in Bactria include Roxana, Heracles of Macedon, and Diodotus II. Memorable people who died in Bactria include Darius III, Diodotus II, and Euthydemus I. Bactria has been the birth place of many politicians, and companions and the death place of many politicians. Bactria is located in Afghanistan.

Bactria, or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia, located in the area south of the Oxus River and north of the Hindu Kush mountains, within modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Bactria was strategically located south of Sogdia and west of the Pamir Mountains. These mountain ranges acted as "walls" protecting Bactria from three sides, with the Pamir mountains to the north and the Hindu Kush to the south forming a junction, and the Karakoram range towards the east. Read more on Wikipedia