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Arachosia

Proper noun

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Arachosia

An Achaemenid and Seleucid satrapy in the eastern part of their respective empires, around modern-day southern Afghanistan.

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Ancient references further The Arachosia Satrapy and the Pactyan people during the Achaemenid Empire in 500 B.C. A variety of ancient groups with eponyms similar to Pakhtun have been hypothesized as possible ancestors of modern Pashtuns. Source: Internet

British Museum The Indo-Scythians were descended from the Sakas (Scythians) who migrated from southern Siberia to Pakistan and Arachosia from the middle of the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century BCE. Source: Internet

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