Willem J. Vogelsang
- HERAT ii. HISTORY, PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD
HERAT ii. HISTORY, PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD The present town of Herat in western Afghanistan dates back to ancient times, but its…
- DAHAE
DAHAE i. The name. ii. The people. i. The Name Already in 1912 the Old Persian ethnonym Daha- (Gk….
- GANDHĀRA
GANDHARA (OPers. Gandāra), a province of the Persian empire under the Achaemenids. The name of Gandhāra or Gandhārī occurs in…
- GEDROSIA
GEDROSIA (or Kedrosia), a place-name known only from Classical sources. In the Alexander biographies and later geographies the name was…