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confirms that his empire had inherited this region from conquests carried out earlier by Cyrus, with the annexation under Cyrus being limited to Gandhāra proper, after which the peoples of the Punjab region previously under Gāndhārī authority took advantage of the new power vacuum to form their own
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After conquering Gandhara and solidifying his supply line back to Bactria, Alexander combined his forces with the King Ambhi of Taxila and crossed the River Indus in July 326 BC to begin the Archosia (Punjab) campaign. Alexander nominated officers as Satraps of the new provinces, and in Gandhara,
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The Bactrians in the army wore a headgear most like to the Median, carrying their native bows of reed, and short spears. (...) The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdians, Gandarians, and Dadicae in the army had the same equipment as the Bactrians. The Parthians and Chorasmians had for their commander
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had in fact been defeated by Pukkusāti's Gāndhārī kingdom. Therefore, following Prakash's position, the Achaemenids would have been able to conquer Gandhāra only after a period of decline of Gandhāra after the reign of Pukkusāti, combined with the growth of Achaemenid power under the kings
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advanced that Cyrus had conquered only the trans-Indus borderlands around Peshawar which had belonged to Gandhāra while Pukkusāti remained a powerful king who maintained his rule over the rest of Gandhāra and the western Punjab. However, according to the scholar
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Under Persian rule, a system of centralized administration, with a bureaucratic system, was introduced into the Indus Valley for the first time. Provinces or "satrapy" were established with provincial capitals.
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The Gandarians thus make their last appearance as Persian tribute paying subjects in the lists of Artaxerxes, though the land continued to be known under the name of Gandhara down to classic Indian times
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It is unknown whether Pukkusāti remained in power after the Achaemenid conquest as a Persian vassal or if he was replaced by a Persian satrap (governor), although
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alphabet, derived from the one used for Aramaic (the official language of Achaemenids), developed here and remained the national script of Gandhara until 200 CE.
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During the 6th century BCE, Gandhāra was an important imperial power in north-west Iron Age South Asia, with the other states of the Punjab region, such as the
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satrapy complied, but the remaining tribes and clans in the former satraps of Gandhara, Arachosia, Sattagydia and Gedrosia rejected Alexander's offer.
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valleys in April 326 BC. The Assakenoi fought bravely and offered stubborn resistance to Alexander and his army in the cities of Ora, Bazira (
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One should, therefore, be careful to distinguish the limited geographical unit of Gandhāra from the political one bearing the same name
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In the winter of 327 BC, Alexander invited all the chieftains in the remaining five Achaemenid satraps to submit to his authority.
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Young, T. Cuyler (1988). "The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cambyses". In
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versions of the Behistun inscription. The extent of the province was apparently wider than the actual geographical region of
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region, and who were threatened by his expansionist policy. Pukkusāti also engaged in friendly relations with the king
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provinces including Gandāra still appear in trilingual cuneiform labels above their respective figures on the tomb of
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Gandhara symbol representing 6 weapons with one point between two weapons; At the bottom of the point, a hollow moon.
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Coin Production and Circulation in Central Asia and North-West India (Before and after Alexander's Conquest)
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Coin Production and Circulation in Central Asia and North-West India (Before and after Alexander's Conquest)
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The Grandeur of Gandhara: The Ancient Buddhist Civilization of the Swat, Peshawar, Kabul and Indus Valleys.
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The Crossroads of Asia: transformation in image and symbol in the art of ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Coin of Early Gandhara Janapada: AR Shatamana and one-eighth Shatamana (round), Taxila-Gandhara region,
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of the Persian Empire. The expeditions of Alexander were recorded by his court historians and by
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since the nasal "n" before consonants was omitted in the Old Persian script, and simplified as
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sources claim that he renounced his throne and became a monk after becoming a disciple of the
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Some sounds are omitted in the writing of Old Persian, and are shown with a raised letter.
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into north-west South Asia. This hypothesis posits that the army which
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A monetary silver coin of the satrapy of Gandhara about 500–400 BC.
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However, the presence of Gandhāra, referred to as Gandāra in
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The depiction of Indian soldiers and the names of the three
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and by other chroniclers many centuries after the event.
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around 480 BC. They had a different equipment from the
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near Persepolis records Gadāra (Gandāra) along with
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McCrindle; 1084: 1697:Les inscriptions de la perse achemenide (1997) 428:) was one of the easternmost provinces of the 1722: 1223:Alexander's Campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan 1053:tomb, Gandāra soldier, circa 470 BC (detail). 93:Gandāra was the easternmost territory of the 2024:Taxation districts of the Achaemenid Empire 1608: 1729: 1715: 1210:, Encyclopaedia Iranica, 15 December 2004. 1175: 1093:, soldiers of Gandāra participated to the 942:The first tribe they encountered were the 87: 1254: 1252: 1250: 1248: 1246: 1220:Eggermont, Pierre Herman Leonard (1975). 1219: 914:conquered Gandhara as well as the Indian 649:Learn how and when to remove this message 1652: 1415: 1345: 1202: 1200: 1059: 1004: 863: 849: 779: 660: 506: 1258: 599:Achaemenid invasion of the Indus Valley 541:Gandhara before the Achaemenid conquest 438:Achaemenid invasion of the Indus Valley 199:Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley 2042: 1492:. 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Index

Gandhara
Mahajanapada
Old Persian
Satrapy
Achaemenid Empire

Achaemenid Empire
Monarchy
King
King of Kings
Cyrus II
Artaxerxes III
Achaemenid era
Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley
Gandhāra
Kamboja
Kingdom of Taxiles
Kingdom of Porus
Gandaris
Peucelaotis
Kingdom of Abisares
Kingdom of Assacani
Old Persian
𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼
Achaemenid Empire
South Asia
Achaemenid invasion of the Indus Valley
Behistun Inscription
DNa inscription
Darius the Great

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