Ἀραχώσιοι
Arachosians
Translated by Jennifer Benedict29 Jun 2001Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
An ethnic [name]. Also [sc. attested is] Arachosia, a territory.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀραχώσιοι· ἐθνικόν. καὶ Ἀραχωσία, χώρα.
Betacode
*)araxw/sioi: e)qniko/n. kai\ *)araxwsi/a, xw/ra.
Notes
- A mountainous region in what is now Afganistan; an Achaemenid Persian satrapy with its capital at Old Kandahar. In 329 BCE Alexander the Great founded one of his several Alexandrias either on this very site (the orthodox view: see e.g. OCD(4) p.60, under 'Alexandria(3)') or nearby to the north-east (so A.B. Bosworth, A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander, i (Oxford 1980) 367-9).