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 Kujula Kadphises. Memorable people who died in Bactria include Darius III, Euthydemus I, and Eucratides 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 based in the area south of the Oxus River and north of the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an area within the north of modern Afghanistan. Bactria was strategically located south of Sogdia and the western part of the Pamir Mountains. The extensive mountain ranges acted as protective "walls" on three sides, with the Pamir on the north and the Hindu Kush on south forming a junction with the Karakoram range towards the east. Read more on Wikipedia