| From Bactria Alexander moved into India at the invitation of the local dynasts of the Kabul valley and Punjab. |
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| The most Hellenized of these states in western Turkistan and Afghanistan was Bactria. |
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| Balkh, also called Vazīrābād, village in northern Afghanistan that was formerly Bactra, the capital of ancient Bactria. |
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| Bessus was now in Bactria raising a national revolt in the eastern satrapies with the usurped title of Great King. |
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| It is not without reason that ancient Bactria is sometimes called 'the cemetery of empires. |
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| First there is the map on both inside covers tracing the great man's absurdly convoluted campaigns through such intestinally named places as Bactria, Sogdiana and Ecbatana. |
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| Amal Khanum Gadjieva of the Bactria Cultural Centre in the capital says that the low quality of contemporary productions has left the post-Soviet generation uninterested in theatre. |
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| First of all, time-wise, as intervals seem to be short between the appearance of new types or traits in the eastern Mediterranean and their introduction in Bactria. |
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| Bactria assumed key importance between 600 BC and 600 AD because of its strategic location on the Silk Road, which was not only a trade route between East and West but also a vehicle for artistic and religious exchanges. |
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| Alexander the Great annexed Kābul to Bactria and founded Alexandria-Kapisu, a city astride the Indian caravan route, to serve as the province's capital. |
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| Buddhism, by the last centuries of the 1st millennium BCE, was prominent in the Himalayan region, Gandhara, Hindu Kush region and Bactria. |
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| Besides Scythia, the countries of Bactria and Ariana bordered India. |
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| The unification of Central Asia and Northern India within Kushan Empire in the 1st to 3rd centuries reinforced the role of the powerful merchants from Bactria and Taxila. |
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| Thus, in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander successfully used his javelin throwers and archers to prevent outflanking movements, while massing his cavalry at the center. |
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