-
possible ancestors of
modern Pakhtun people. They are
identified with "
Pactyans" by Herodotus.
Paktia Province Paktika Province Loya
Paktia Prasad, R....
- 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...
- a
common and
singular origin.
Descent from the
Vedic Aryan Pakhtas (or
Pactyans, per Herodotus), who are
referenced in
contemporary sources in Sanskrit...
-
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...
- were
mentioned by the Gr****
historian Herodotus, who
called them the "
Pactyans" as
early as the 1st
millennium BCE. In the 1970s, the
provincial capital...
