Arachosia

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Old Persian toponym ancient city historical region satrapy

Arachosia was an ancient historical region in south-central Asia, roughly corresponding to parts of modern southern Afghanistan and Pakistan, known as a crossroads of Persian, Greek, and later empires.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Arachosia canonical 8
Arachosia satrapy 1
Arachosii 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Old Persian toponym ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ
historical region ⓘ
satrapy ⓘ
administeredAs province of the Maurya Empire ⓘ
province of the Seleucid Empire ⓘ
satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
borderedBy Bactria ⓘ
Drangiana ⓘ
Kamboja–Gandhara region ⓘ
surface form: Gandhara

Drangiana ⓘ
surface form: Gedrosia
capital Alexandria in Arachosia ⓘ
surface form: Alexandria Arachosia
conqueredBy Alexander the Great ⓘ
Cyrus the Great ⓘ
correspondsTo parts of modern Pakistan ⓘ
Southern Afghanistan ⓘ
surface form: southern Afghanistan
inhabitedBy Iranian peoples ⓘ
knownAs Arachosia ⓘ
surface form: Arachosia satrapy

Arachosia ⓘ
surface form: Arachosii

Arachōsia ⓘ
Arachōtos ⓘ
Harauvatiš ⓘ
languageInAntiquity Aramaic ⓘ
Greek ⓘ
Old Persian ⓘ
laterInfluencedBy Buddhism ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
surface form: Hellenistic culture
locatedIn Arachosia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
Greater Iran ⓘ
South-Central Asia ⓘ
mentionedIn Achaemenid royal inscriptions ⓘ
Behistun Inscription ⓘ
modernCountryTerritory Afghanistan ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ
modernSiteNear Kandahar ⓘ
partOf Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom ⓘ
Indo-Greek Kingdoms ⓘ
surface form: Indo-Greek Kingdom

Kushan Empire ⓘ
Maurya Empire ⓘ
Seleucid Empire ⓘ
religionInAntiquity Zoroastrianism ⓘ
strategicRole crossroads between Iranian plateau and Indian subcontinent ⓘ
link between Mesopotamia and Indus Valley ⓘ
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
early 1st millennium CE ⓘ
traversedBy Arghandab River ⓘ
Helmand River ⓘ
surface form: Helmand River basin

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Alexandria in Arachosia → locatedIn → Arachosia ⓘ
Alexandria in Arachosia → regionHistoricalName → Arachosia ⓘ
Bactria → borderedBy → Arachosia ⓘ
Indo-Parthians → regionRuled → Arachosia ⓘ
Arachosia → locatedIn → Arachosia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Alexandria Arachosia
Arachosia → knownAs → Arachosia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arachosii
Arachosia → knownAs → Arachosia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arachosia satrapy
Old Kandahar archaeological site → partOf → Arachosia ⓘ
Treaty with Chandragupta Maurya → territoryConcerned → Arachosia ⓘ
Ancient Iran → hasPart → Arachosia ⓘ