Bactrian
Britishadjective
noun
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By 327BC, Alexander the Great had conquered the region and married a Bactrian woman named Roxana, after defeating the Achaemenid ruler.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024
The researchers decoded the ancient text using rock face inscriptions that were discovered near the Almosi Gorge in northwest Tajikistan in 2022, which include sections in an extinct but known language called Bactrian.
From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2023
Even after the Bactrian kingdom split away from the Seleucid Empire in the third century BCE, Greek influence there remained.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
A two-humped Bactrian camel can weigh more than 2,000 pounds.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021
He traded our pack mule for a Bactrian camel to help us cross the desert ahead.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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