Bactrian/Ancient City
Bactria was originally a province
of the Persian Empire in Central Asia. It was in these regions, where
the fertile soil of the mountainous country is surrounded by the Turanian
desert, that the prophet Zoroaster preached and gained his first adherents.
The sacred language in which the Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrianism,
is written, was once called "old Bactrian |
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Bactrian |
Cilician |
Susian |
Persian |
Mede |
Libyan |
Gandarian |
Skudrian |