Bactra

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Bactra

an ancient city in northern Afghanistan, and the capital of Bactria. It is known to have existed from the first millennium B. C.

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Bactria
Balkh
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

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The fourth important route led through Khotan, Begram and Bactra, touched Merv, Hamadan and Damascus, then moved southward to Gaza and beyond (to Alexandria).

East-West cultural relationship: some Indian aspects

French archaeologists have discovered Greek remains of the antique city of Bactra, capital of the once powerful Greek-Asiatic kingdom of Bactria, at Balkh, northern Afghanistan.