"Parthians stations" in particular describes the overland trade route between the Near East and India during the 1st century BCE. The Near East is a term commonly used by archaeologists, geographers and historians, less commonly by journalists and commentators, to refer to the region encompassing the Levant (modern Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon), Turkey, Mesopotamia (Iraq and eastern Syria). ...
Isidore of Charax is often quoted for a description of Arachosia in the 1st century BCE, in which he mentions Greek populations and cities, one of them called Demetrias, under Parthian rule: Arachosia is the ancient name of an area that corresponds to the southern part of today s Afghanistan, around the city of Kandahar. ...
"Beyond is Arachosia. And the Parthians call this White India; there are the city of Biyt and the city of Pharsana and the city of Chorochoad and the city of Demetrias; then Alexandropolis, the metropolis of Arachosia; it is Greek, and by it flows the river Arachotus. As far as this place the land is under the rule of the Parthians." "Parthians stations", 1st century BCE.[1]
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^ Mentioned in Bopearachchi, "Monnaies Greco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques", p52. Original text in paragraph 19 of Parthian stations
Isidorus of Charax (q.v.) in the first century CE referred to it as Congobar and mentioned a temple of Ana@hita@ (Anaitis) there (Isidorus of Charax, nos.
It is questionable whether the Temple of Ana@hita@, described by Isidorus of Charax, is identical with the ruins of Kangavar.
Isidorus described obviously another temple of the first century AD, somewhere in the region of Congobar (Kangavar) or at the place of the later platform, which, according to the results of the excavation, seems to be built up in Sasanian time, perhaps under Kòosrow II Parve@z (r.
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