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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....
- a
common and
singular origin.
Descent from the
Vedic Aryan Pakhtas (or
Pactyans, per Herodotus), who are
referenced in
contemporary sources in Sanskrit...
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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]...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- The area
during 500 B.C. was
recorded as
Arachosia and
inhabited by a
people called the
Pactyans....
- 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....
- 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...
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Sagartians – a
people Persian in language, and in
dress half Persian, half
Pactyan, who
furnished the army as many as
eight thousand horse. It is not the...
