Bactria

How to use Bactria in a sentence

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

  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) | Jacob Bryant

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

  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 | Various

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

  The Student's Mythology | Catherine Ann White

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

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

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

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 | Various