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Bactrians and northern
The Bactrians, an Iranian ethnic group who lived in Bactria ( northern Afghanistan ), were Hellenized during the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and soon after various tribes in northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent ( modern Pakistan ) during the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
From the time of the separation of Bactria from Syria in the middle of the 3rd century BCE, the tendency of the Bactrians, forced by the pressure of their western and northern neighbours, was to extend themselves southwards into India.

Bactrians and Iranian
During pre-Islamic and early Islamic times, Central Asia was a predominantly Iranian region that included the sedentary Eastern Iranic speaking Bactrians, Sogdians and Chorasmians, and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Alans.
In particular, they are descended from ancient Eastern Iranian peoples of Central Asia, such as the Soghdians and the Bactrians, with an admixture of Western Iranian Persians as well as non-Iranian peoples.

Bactrians and some
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander — by Menander in particular ( at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaüs ), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus the king of the Bactrians.
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander -- by Menander in particular ( at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaüs ), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus the king of the Bactrians ; and they took possession, not only of Patalena, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of Saraostus and Sigerdis.
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander -- by Menander in particular ( at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaus ), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus the king of the Bactrians ; and they took possession, not only of Patalena, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of Saraostus and Sigerdis.

Bactrians and features
The Dayuan were identified by the Chinese as unusual in features, with a sophisticated urban civilization, similar to that of the Bactrians and Parthians: " The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria and Parthia are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hou Han Shu ).

Bactrians and area
The " Silk Road " came into being from the 1st century BC, following these efforts by the Yuezhi and Xiongnu in the Tarim Basin to consolidate a road to the Western world and India, both through direct settlements in the area of the Tarim Basin and diplomatic relations with the countries of the Dayuan, Parthians and Bactrians further west.
The Silk Road essentially came into being from the 1st century BCE, following the efforts of China to consolidate a road to the Western world, both through direct settlements in the area of the Tarim Basin and diplomatic relations with the countries of the Dayuan, Parthians and Bactrians further west.

Bactrians and were
The Bactrians were the inhabitants of Bactria.
Control of these lucrative trade routes, however, attracted foreign interest, and in the 6th century BC the Bactrians were conquered by the Persians, and in the 4th century BC by the Ancient Macedonians.
First in its ranks were the prophets of the Egyptians ; and the Chaldeans among the Assyrians ; and the Druids among the Gauls ; and the Sramanas among the Bactrians (" Σαρμαναίοι Βάκτρων "); and the philosophers of the Celts ; and the Magi of the Persians, who foretold the Saviour's birth, and came into the land of Judea guided by a star.
:" The Bactrians, involved in various wars, lost not only their rule but also their freedom, as, exhausted by their wars against the Sogdians, the Arachotes, the Dranges, the Arians and the Indians, they were finally crushed, as if drawn of all their blood, by an enemy weaker than them, the Parthians.

Bactrians and .
The Bactrians founded the town of Paropamisadae near Kabul, but it was later ceded to the Mauryans in the 1st century BC.
From this point the Bactrians tend to disappear from the historical record, a disappearance made final by the Arab invasion of the 8th century AD.
* Antiochus III returns from his eastern campaigns, after having defeated the Bactrians and subjugated the Parthians and thus being able to partly restore Seleucid power in these provinces by crushing the revolting governors of Media, Persia and Anatolia.
In the folds of the mountains, according to legend, there are over a thousand buried treasures, reminders of the passage over the ages of great armies including the Bactrians, the Scythians, the Muslims, and the Mongols.
After King Ninus conquered Asia, including the Bactrians, he was fatally wounded by an arrow.
Assyrian sources beginning around 800 BC distinguish the " powerful Medes ", i. e. the actual Medes ,( Parthians, Sagartians, Margians, Bactrians, Sogdians etc .).
It was used by Achaemenids, Sakas, Kushanas, Hunas, Bactrians, by the rulers of Kapisa / Kabul and Gilgit.
They are considered by him as sophisticated urban dwellers, on the same footing as the Parthian and the Bactrians.
In Josephus, he is ancestor of the Bactrians, but Jerome ( c. 390 ) and Isidore of Seville ( c. 635 ) make him ancestor of the Acarnanians or Carians.
Included in this stock is domesticated Bactrians, who freely mate with wild individuals.
Pashtuns and Tajiks are the modern-day descendants of the ancient Bactrians, evidence of this has been illustrated through DNA testing.
The Gandhāris, along with the Balhika ( Bactrians ), Mūjavants, Angas, and the Magadhas, are also mentioned in the Atharvaveda ( AV 5. 22. 14 ), as distant people.

spoke and Bactrian
He used an Eastern Iranian, Indo-European language known as Bactrian ( called " αρια ," i. e. " Aryan " in the Rabatak inscription ), which appears in Greek script in his inscriptions, though it is not certain what language the Kushans originally spoke ; possibly some form of Tocharian-a " centum " Indo-European language.

spoke and northern
Australia, the Philippine Islands, Japan, and northern China were inhabited by those members of the Haijac Union that spoke American.
Covering large parts of modern day France, Belgium, northwest Germany and northern Italy, Gaul was inhabited by many Celtic and Belgae tribes whom the Romans referred to as Gauls and who spoke the Gaulish language roughly between the Seine and the Garonne ( Gallia Celtica ).
He added that the city was ruled by a Somali Sultan, originally from Berbera in northern Somalia, who spoke both Somali ( referred to as Mogadishan, the Benadir dialect of Somali ) and Arabic with equal fluency.
The vast majority of the human population of Scandinavia are Scandinavians, descended from several ( North ) Germanic tribes who originally inhabited the southern part of Scandinavia and what is now northern Germany, who spoke a Germanic language that evolved into Old Norse and who were known as Norsemen in the Early Middle Ages.
In 1930, about 42, 000 inhabitants of Prague spoke German as their native language, while millions lived in northern Bohemia near the border to Germany.
Through the early Middle Ages, the northern part of present-day Belgium ( now commonly referred to as Flanders ) had become an overwhelmingly Germanized and Germanic language-speaking area, whereas in the southern part people had continued to be Roman and spoke derivatives of Vulgar Latin.
He supported the Polk Administration's conduct of the Mexican-American War, spoke in favor of the 54 ° 40 ' northern limit to the Oregon territory, and voted for the Wilmot Proviso, which would have banned slavery from the territory gained from Mexico.
These mummified remains may have been of people who spoke Indo-European languages, that remained in use in the Tarim Basin, in the modern day Xinjiang region, until replaced by Turkic influences from the northern Xiongnu Empire, and by Chinese influences from the eastern Han Dynasty, who spoke a Sino-Tibetan language.
As early as the 13th century, inhabitants of the northern two-thirds of Doubs spoke the Franc-Comtois language, a dialect of Langue d ' Oïl.
Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi, which became established as the prestige dialect ( see Nuosu language ).
In the early Middle Ages, from the departure of the Romans from Britain to the formation of the Kingdom of Alba which would eventually become Scotland, the people of northern Britain spoke a variety of Celtic languages, to which Christianisation and conquest added Latin and Old English.
Metro Chairman William R. Allen, whom the road would ultimately be named after, spoke in favour of the project based on the rapid transit portion of the project, which included commuter parking lots at northern stations.
The people from what are today northern Germany and Denmark who settled in England from about 400 onwards came from the same regions and spoke more or less the same language as the people who lived in Frisia ( as medieval Friesland is usually called to distinguish it from the present-day regions with that name ).
Although Meera is often classed with the northern Sant bhaktis who spoke of a formless divinity, there is no doubt that she presents Krishna as the historical master of the Bhagavad Gita who is, even so, the perfect Avatar of the eternal, who is omnipresent but particularly focused in his icon and his temple.
During the Chinese classificatory campaigns carried out in the 1950s, those who could no longer speak their language were classified into " Han ," those who could not speak their language but adopted the Islamic religion were classified into " Hui ," those who followed the Mongols into the northern grassland were classified into " Mongols ," and those who spoke their language and adopted the Islamic religion were classified into " Dongxiang ," " Bao ’ an ," and " Yügu ," the last of which represented the intermixture of the Xianbei and Sari Uigur.
Since the West ( that is, Western Europe ) spoke Latin as its lingua franca and the East ( Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and northern Africa ) largely used Koine Greek to transmit writings, theological developments were difficult to translate from one branch to the other.
For centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Norman kings and high-ranking nobles spoke one of the French langues d ' oïl, that we call Anglo-Norman, a variety of Old Norman used in England and to some extent elsewhere in the British Isles during the Anglo-Norman period and originating from a northern langue d ' oïl dialect.
However, the northern and middle parts of Schleswig ( up to the Eckernförde Bay ) originally spoke Danish.
As examples, Ambassador Schieffer was the guest and featured speaker of the Yomiuri International Economic Society's meeting in Osaka and Ambassador Schieffer traveled to Misawa, in northern Japan, and spoke on the topic of " Looking at U. S .- Japan Relations from a Local Perspective.
Not long after, Anas spoke to Abdullah Azzam about the need to ensure Muslim help reached northern Afghanistan, and not just that of Western NGOs.
At the end of the 9th century Bulgars and Slavs lived as Bulgarians in most of Moesia, northern Thrace and upper inland Macedonia and spoke a Slavic language with a minor admixture of Bulgar words.
After the Americans took over their territory as a result of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the independence of Texas in 1836, all the related tribes were increasingly lumped together and dubbed “ Wichita .” That designation also included the Kichai of northern Texas who spoke a different although a related language.
The Jewish inhabitants of a wide area from northern Iraq, eastern Turkey and north western Iran mostly spoke various dialects of modern Aramaic.

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