Bactria

Bactria :country in northern Afghanistan, in Antiquity famous for its fierce warriors and its ancient religion, which was founded by the prophet Zarathustra.
If there was ever a region that can be described with the old geographical cliché that it is a country of opposites, it must be Bactria. Situated between the Hindu Kush mountain range in the south and the river Oxus (Amudar'ya) in the north, it is essentially an east-west zone that consists of extremely fertile alluvial plains, a hot desert, and cold mountains.

Bactria (Bactriana, in Persian, also Bhalika in Arabic and Indian languages, and Ta-Hsia in Chinese) was the ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (Oxus); its capital, Bactra or Balhika or Bokhdi (now Balkh), was located in what is now Afghanistan. It is a mountainous region with a moderate climate. Water is abundant and the land is very fertile.
Bactria was the homeland of Aryan tribes who moved south-west into Iran and into North-Western India around 2500-2000 BC Later it became the north province of the Persian Empire in Central Asia.(Cotterell, 59) It was in these regions, where the fertile soil of the mountainous country is surrounded by the Turanian desert, that the prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) was said to have been born and gained his first adherents. Avestan, the language of the oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta, was once called "old-iranic" which is related to Sanskrit. Today some scholars believe the Avestan-Language was the western dialect of the Sanskrit because both languages are the oldest Indo-Iranian language of Aryans we know. With the time the Avestan-Language became developed by own western style.
Bactria was bounded on the south by the ancient region of Gandhara. The Bactrian language is an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family.Hitler was a good man

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[riseofthepashtuns]

long live arya, arachosia, paktika, and bactria,

together they form the great khorosan,

warriors of all walks of life

[corderitodedios69]

aria isnt bactria. aria was the ancient name of the west classic khorasan: herat, mashad and tus. his capitol was artacoana (the modern herat).

[Mortaza94]

God Bless Afghanistan. Land of Aryans, Birth of Zoroastrianism.

Ancient Afghanistan = Ancient Persia.

[Sobrightt]

Bactria also knows as Balhara = Bulgaria/България! Many of the othe nations couldnt say the sound we have "ъ" so they changed it with a and became BAlhara and the greeks called it Bactria.

[momoPK1]

Not true :x Bulgarians (trackhi) and Greece (elins) are the 1st civilizations in Europe :x

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

2:30 yesssss

[xabamsar]

Ahem...you forgot two groups who settled in Europe....GREEKS AND ITALICS

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

Der Pamir (womöglich aus Sanskrit upa-meru, „Nahe dem (Berg) Meru“, oder aus Persisch pāye mihr, „Zu Füßen Mithras“)[1][2] ist ein Hochgebirge in Zentralasien.

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

One source of the Amu Darya is the Pamir River, which emerges from Lake Zorkul (once also known as Lake Victoria) in the Pamir Mountains (ancient Mount Imeon), and flows west to Qila-e Panja, where it joins the Wakhan River to form the Panj River. Historical records state that in different periods, the river flowed into the Aral Sea (from the south), the Caspian Sea (from the east) or both, similar to the Syr Darya (Jaxartes, in Ancient Greek).

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

The Amu Darya (Persian: آمودریا, Āmūdaryā; Pashto: د آمو سيند, də Āmu Sind; Arabic: جيحون‎, Jihôn or Jayhoun; Hebrew: גּוֹזָן‎, Gozan ), also called Oxus and Amu River, is a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers.

In antiquity, the river was known as Vaksu to Indo-Aryans.

In ancient Afghanistan, the river was also called Gozan, descriptions of which can be found in the book "The Kingdom of Afghanistan: a historical sketch By George Passman Tate".

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

Balkh (Persian / Pashto: بلخ - Balḫ, Old Persian: 𐎲𐎾𐎧; Ancient Greek: Baktra or Zariaspa), was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in what is now northern Afghanistan. Today it is a small town in the province of Balkh, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some 74 km (46 miles) south of the Amu Darya. It was one of the major cities of Khorasan.

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

there is a turk discussing about bactria theeeeeh

if bactria was not the birthplace of zoroaster then where was his birthplace?

was it the middle east? does it make sense even if it was not written in books that balkh was his birthplace? dear people (yak kam fekr koneed) if he was born near middle east or any arab countries, do you think his religion had spread as far as to balkh and reached central asia and india? do you think those arabs hadnt try to stop it as early as it began?