Bactria Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
historical region in Central Asia
About Bactria
Civilisation in this area goes back a long way; excavations show a well-developed Bronze Age Oxus Civilization 2300-1700 BCE. The sites are referred to as the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex. Margiana is an adjacent region to the west; the oasis ofMervis one of the main archaeological sites for this period in that area. The trade routes are also ancient; theIndus Valley Civilisation, centered in what is now Pakistan, had a trading outpost in Bactria by around 2000 BCE. Greek records mention trade with Bactria via a port called Barbarikon, near modern-dayKarachi, several centuries BCE. Bactria has been part of various empires and has been conquered many times—notably by Cyrus the Great and several laterPersian rulers, byAlexander the Great, byGenghis Khan, and (most of it) by theRus
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