The Parsii were a nomadic tribe,[1] in the district of Paropamisadae in Bactria near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity.[2][3] They lived on the Oxus River,[4] centered on the city of Parsiia.
History
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During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires they lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai.[5]
They are mentioned in Claudius Ptolemaeus[6] and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul.[7]
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from nearby Kupisa.[8] until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.[9]
References
edit- ^ Philippus CLUVERIUS, Introductionis in universam geographiam (Leonard Lichfield, 1657) page 26.
- ^ Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus (J. Murray, 1873) p 552-553.
- ^ An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58-59.
- ^ Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus (J. Murray, 1873) p274.
- ^ Vincent Arthur Smith, Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India (Asian Educational Services, 1997) page 11.
- ^ Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia: gewidmet Kardinal Aloysius Cornelius, Volume 0 (Vincentius Valgrisius, 1562) page 236.
- ^ Biography of Chandragupta Maurya: Ancestry, Early Life and His Conquest.
- ^ N. N. Ghosh , Do The References To The Yavana Invasion Of India Found In The Yugapurana, Patanjali Mahabhashya And The Malavikagnimitra Form The Evidence Of One Single Event? Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 9 (1946), pp. 93-103.
- ^ An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58-59.