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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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