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- possible ancestors of modern Pakhtun people. They are identified with "Pactyans" by Herodotus. Paktia Province Paktika Province Loya Paktia Prasad, R....
- Verse 7 Heinrich Zimmer connects them with a tribe mentioned by Herodotus (Pactyans) in 430 BCE in the Histories: Other Indians dwell near the town of Caspatyrus...
- pakt/pakth-ia (la=land of) = paktia, The land of pakthus. Pactyan (pactian) These Pactyans lived on the eastern frontier of the Achaemenid Arachosia Satrapy...
- Verse 7 Heinrich Zimmer connects them with a tribe mentioned by Herodotus (Pactyans) in 430 BCE in the Histories: Other Indians dwell near the town of Caspatyrus[Κασπατύρῳ]...
- since 500 BC. The Gr**** historian Herodotus mentioned a people called Pactyans living in and around Arachosia as early as the 1st millennium BC. The Baloch...
- peoples, and were referred to as Arachosians or Arachoti. They were called Pactyans in reference to their individual ethnicity, and that name may have been...
- The area during 500 B.C. was recorded as Arachosia and inhabited by a people called the Pactyans....
- referred to as Arachosians or Arachoti. It is ****umed that they were called Pactyans by ethnicity, and that name may have been in reference to the ethnic Paṣtun...
- Map of the Median Empire from the University of Texas in Austin, showing Pactyans in what is now Kandahar, Afghanistan ... Link Archived 4 October 2003 at...
- that made up most of what is now Afghanistan during 500 B.C. The inhabitants of Arachosia were known as Pactyans, possibly today's Pakhtuns or Pashtuns....