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Bactria

Bactria is a historic region in , along the Silk Road. At times it has been an independent kingdom, at others part of Alexander the Great's Empire, the Persian Empire or Mongol Empire.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: historical region in Central Asia
  • Also known as: “Bactriana”, “Baktra”, “Baktria”, “Baktriana”, and “Zariaspa”

Bactria

Latitude of center
36.7679° or 36° 46′ 5″ north
Longitude of center
66.9012° or 66° 54′ 4″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
way 151243951
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q132646
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Bactria” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባክትሪያ”
  • Amharic: “ባክትርያ”
  • Amharic: “ባክትርያና”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βακτρία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βακτριανή”
  • Arabic: “باختر”
  • Arabic: “باختريا”
  • Arabic: “باكتريا”
  • Aragonese: “Bactria”
  • Armenian: “Բակտրիա”
  • Asturian: “Bactriana”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baktriya”
  • Bashkir: “Бактрия”
  • Basque: “Baktria”
  • Basque: “Baktriana”
  • Belarusian: “Бактрыя”
  • Belarusian: “Тахарыстан”
  • Bengali: “বাক্ট্রিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাকট্রিয়া”
  • Breton: “Baktria”
  • Bulgarian: “Бактрия”
  • Bulgarian: “Балхара”
  • Catalan: “Bactria”
  • Catalan: “Bactriana”
  • Catalan: “Bactriàna”
  • Catalan: “Bactrians”
  • Chinese: “Bactria”
  • Chinese: “巴克特利亚”
  • Chinese: “巴克特里亚”
  • Chinese: “巴克特里亞”
  • Chuvash: “Бактри”
  • Croatian: “Baktrija”
  • Czech: “Baktrie”
  • Czech: “Baktrijská říše”
  • Danish: “Baktrien”
  • Dutch: “Bactria”
  • Dutch: “Bactriana”
  • Dutch: “Bactrie”
  • Dutch: “Bactrië”
  • Dutch: “Baktrie”
  • Dutch: “Baktrië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكتريا”
  • Esperanto: “Baktrio”
  • Estonian: “Baktria”
  • Finnish: “Baktria”
  • French: “Bactriane”
  • French: “Bactrie”
  • French: “Tokharestan”
  • Galician: “Bactria”
  • Galician: “Bactriana”
  • Georgian: “ბაქტრია”
  • German: “Bactria”
  • German: “Baktrien”
  • Greek: “Βακτρα”
  • Greek: “Βακτρία”
  • Greek: “Βακτριανή”
  • Hebrew: “באקטריה”
  • Hindi: “बाखतर”
  • Hindi: “बाख़्तर”
  • Hindi: “बाख्त्र”
  • Hindi: “बाख़्त्र”
  • Hindi: “बॅक्ट्रिया”
  • Hindi: “बेक्ट्रिया”
  • Hindi: “बैक्ट्रिया”
  • Hindi: “बैक्ट्रियाई”
  • Hindi: “बैक्ट्रीया”
  • Hungarian: “Baktria”
  • Indonesian: “Bactria”
  • Indonesian: “Baktria”
  • Irish: “An Bhaictria”
  • Italian: “Bactria”
  • Italian: “Bactriana”
  • Italian: “Battria”
  • Italian: “Battriana”
  • Italian: “Battriani”
  • Italian: “Tokharistan”
  • Japanese: “トハーリスターン”
  • Japanese: “トハラ”
  • Japanese: “トハリスタン”
  • Japanese: “バクトリア”
  • Kazakh: “Baktrïya”
  • Kazakh: “Бактрия”
  • Kazakh: “باكترىييا”
  • Kirghiz: “Бактрия”
  • Korean: “박트리아”
  • Korean: “박트리아인”
  • Korean: “토카라 지방”
  • Korean: “토카라국”
  • Korean: “토하리스탄”
  • Korean: “투하리스탄”
  • Latin: “Bactria”
  • Latvian: “Baktrija”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bactria”
  • Lithuanian: “Baktrija”
  • Lithuanian: “Tocharistanas”
  • Macedonian: “Бактрија”
  • Malagasy: “Baktria”
  • Malagasy: “Baktriàna”
  • Malay: “Balakh”
  • Malayalam: “Bactria”
  • Malayalam: “ബാക്‌ട്രിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ബാക്ട്രിയ”
  • Marathi: “बाख्तर”
  • Marathi: “बॅक्ट्रिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bactria”
  • Nepali: “बाह्लीक”
  • Nepali: “ब्याक्ट्रिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bactria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bactris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baktria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baktria”
  • Norwegian: “Baktria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bactriana”
  • Ossetian: “Бактри”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਖਤਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਖ਼ਤਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਖਤ੍ਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਖ਼ਤ੍ਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਕਟਰੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਕਟ੍ਰੀਅ”
  • Persian: “باختر”
  • Persian: “باختریش”
  • Persian: “باکتریا”
  • Persian: “بخدی”
  • Persian: “تخارستان”
  • Persian: “تُخارستان”
  • Persian: “طخارستان”
  • Polish: “Baktria”
  • Portuguese: “Bactria”
  • Portuguese: “Báctria”
  • Portuguese: “Bactriana”
  • Pushto: “باختر”
  • Romanian: “Bactria”
  • Russian: “Бактра”
  • Russian: “Бактриана”
  • Russian: “Бактрийцы”
  • Russian: “Бактрия”
  • Serbian: “Baktrija”
  • Serbian: “Бактрија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baktrija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baktrijana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Toharistan”
  • Sindhi: “باختر”
  • Slovak: “Baktria”
  • Slovenian: “Baktrija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باکتریا”
  • Spanish: “Bactria”
  • Spanish: “Bactriana”
  • Spanish: “Bactriano”
  • Spanish: “Tocaristan”
  • Spanish: “Tocaristán”
  • Spanish: “Tojaristan”
  • Spanish: “Tojaristán”
  • Swahili: “Baktria”
  • Swedish: “Bactria”
  • Swedish: “Bactriana”
  • Swedish: “Baktria”
  • Swedish: “Baktriana”
  • Swedish: “Baktrien”
  • Swedish: “Bhalika”
  • Swedish: “Daxia”
  • Swedish: “Ta-Hsia”
  • Swiss German: “Baktrie”
  • Tajik: “Boxtar”
  • Tajik: “Бохтар”
  • Tamil: “பாக்திரியா”
  • Tatar: “Balxar ile”
  • Tatar: “Бахтәр”
  • Thai: “แบกเตรีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Baktrien”
  • Turkish: “Baktria”
  • Turkish: “Baktriane”
  • Turkish: “Baktriya”
  • Turkish: “Toharistan”
  • Turkmen: “Baktriýa”
  • Ukrainian: “Бактріана”
  • Ukrainian: “Бактрія”
  • Urdu: “باختر”
  • Uzbek: “Baqtriya”
  • Venetian: “Bàtria”
  • Vietnamese: “Bactria”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Hạ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bactria (rehiyon)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bactria”
  • Welsh: “Bactria”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաքթրիա”
  • Western Panjabi: “باختر”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴克特里亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴克特里亞”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bactria”. Photo: NasirGhoreishi, CC BY-SA 4.0.