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The Central Asian dimension of the symbolic system in Bactria and Margiana. (Special Section)
; The Oxus and its iconography The Bronze Age civilization of Bactria and Margiana emerged after 2500 BC from the local cultures...language (forms and style) if not beliefs, and deeply rooted in Bactria-Margiana. In this respect, the symbolic system of the Oxus...
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Southern Bactria and northern India before Islam: a review of archaeological reports.
; Despite a huge and ever-increasing bibliography, the history of northern India from the death of Asoka to the first inroads of the Moslem armies is still imperfectly known. About its social history we can only state that new peoples kept coming from Iran and Central Asia and were, in the course of
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MAJOR BRONZE AGE FIND ASIAN DIGS REVEAL UNKNOWN BACTRIAN CIVILIZATION
; ...entirely unsuspected civilization, known as Bactria, flourished in south-central Soviet Asia...the world market, until they too struck Bactria. Now, some scholars are saying that Bronze Age Bactria should be added to the list of the four...
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Blood and sand: a short history of Afghanistan
; ...establish Kabul. 600BC Zoroaster introduces Zoroastrianism in Bactria about 522 BC. 522-486BC Persian empire expands to encompass...329-326BC Alexander the Great invades. 323BC Greek rule of Bactria (northern Afghanistan) 50 AD Kushan rule, under King Kanishka...
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BTP buys unit
; THE CHEMICALS group BTP yesterday paid pounds 6m cash for Bactria Biocides, a small unit of rival Yule Catto. The unit makes preservatives used in paint and metalwork.
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The Invention of Theater: Recontextualizing the Vexing Question
; ...from Greece to India in the wake of Alexander's conquest of Bactria (329-328 BCE)-that is, at about the same time as Plautus and...performance of Greek plays at the courts of the Greek kings in Bactria, Punjab, and Gujerat (because Greek domination did extend that...
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Bactra rediscovered. (Afghanistan).(Brief Article)
; ...archaeologists have discovered Greek remains of the antique city of Bactra, capital of the once powerful Greek-Asiatic kingdom of Bactria, at Balkh, northern Afghanistan. From 329 to 327 BC Alexander the Great lived in Bactra, then one of the most fabulous cities...
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The Oxus Civilization: the Bronze Age of central Asia. (Special Section)
; ...flows from east to west through the region the Greeks called Bactria. These riverine environments and their numerous tributaries...Tadjikistan, and Uzbekistan/northern Afghanistan (ancient Bactria). It is only 20 years ago that the distinctive nature of the...
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Early Civilization in Asia
; 00-00-0000 Map of Early Civilization in Asia Luoyang Zhengzhou Anyang Hemudu Xi'an Madurai Harappa Kalibangan Mohenjo Daro Cochin Bactria Baluchistan Ceylon Route Of The Aryan Invasion Shang Western Zhou Indian Ocean Arabian Sea Bay Of Bengal Yellow Sea Huang River...
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Realms beyond the mountains: notes on Kenneth Rexroth.(Critical essay)
; ...the last of all Greek kingdoms, that of Bactria, and turned it into remarkable verse...But at that time I knew little of the Bactrian Greeks except for the fine portrait coins...the Hellenistic traditions which the Bactrian kings (not Alexander as some suppose...
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