Arachosia
Proper noun
Meaning
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.
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.