Bactria

[ bak-tree-uh ]

noun

1. an ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains. : Bactra.

Bactria

/ ˈbæktrɪə /

noun

1. an ancient country of SW Asia, between the Hindu Kush mountains and the Oxus River: forms the present Balkh region in N Afghanistan

Other Words From

• Bactri·an adjective noun

Example Sentences

The whole account of the fleet of ships built in Bactria, and carried upon camels to the Indus, is a childish forgery.

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Bactria had, from a remote antiquity, claims to preëminence among the Aryan nations.

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The doctrines of Zoroaster, an Eastern sage, who is thought to have lived in Bactria about twelve hundred years before our era.

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Bessus, governor of Bactria, who seized Dari'us (after the battle of Arbe'la) and put him to death.

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Chosroes united with them and conquered Bactria, while he left the country north of the Oxus to the Turks.

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