Ariana

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In the Greco-Roman geography, Ariana was a general geographical term referring to the region between Central Asia and the Indus River. Situated to the far east in the Achaemenid Empire, it covered a number of satrapies spanning what is today almost the entirety of Afghanistan, the easternmost parts of Iran, and the westernmost parts of Pakistan. "Ariana" is Latinized from Greek: Ἀρ(ε)ιανή Ar(e)ianē [region]; Ἀρ(ε)ιανοί Ar(e)ianoi [demonym]. The Greek word, in turn, is derived from the term Airyanem (lit. 'Land of the Aryans') in Avestan. Throughout its history, Ariana was governed by the Persians, such as the Achaemenids, the Kushano-Sasanians, and the Sasanians. Other significant rulers were the Greeks and the Indians, such as the Macedonians, the Seleucids, the Mauryas, the Greco-Bactrians, the Indo-Greeks, the Indo-Scythians, and the Parthians (including the Indo-Parthians) and the Kushans. Various Huna peoples and other Central Asian nomads also had a historical presence in parts of...

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