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Margiana (Gr****: Μαργιανή Margianḗ, Old Persian: Marguš,
Middle Persian: Marv) is a
historical region centred on the
oasis of Merv and was a
minor satrapy...
- The Bactria–
Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) is the
modern archaeological designation for a
particular Middle Bronze Age
civilisation of southern...
- history.
Under the
Achaemenid Empire, it was the
center of the
satrapy of
Margiana. It was
subsequently ruled by ****enistic Kings, Parthians, Sasanians,...
- 1600 BCE from the Indo-Iranians, and
migrated southwards to the Bactria–
Margiana culture (BMAC), from
which they
borrowed some of
their distinctive religious...
- land.
Sometime in the 280s BCE, the
Parni attempted to
invade Seleucid Margiana in
order to
expand their regional power and security. The
Seleucids quickly...
- Age settlement. It is the "capital" or
major settlement of the Bactria–
Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). The site was
discovered by Gr****-Russian...
- Yaz Depe, near Baýramaly, Turkmenistan) was an
early Iron Age
culture of
Margiana,
Bactria and
Sogdia (c. 1500–500 BC, or c. 1500–330 BC). It
emerges at...
- the
region was
bordered by the
great Carmanian desert and the
plain of
Margiana. The Amu
Darya and
smaller rivers such as (from west to east) the Shirin...
- Bactria, and
Sogdia in the 8th–6th
centuries BC, as well as
Fergana and
Margiana in the 3rd
century BC – 6th
century AD. The area was
incorporated into...
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Neolithic farmers is also
known from
further east,
including from the Bactria–
Margiana Archaeological Complex and the Harappan/Indus
Valley Civilisation. Caucasus...
