Bactria
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in the texts
Cyropaedia
Region under Assyrian pressure.
he already had Hyrcania under his dominion and was closely besetting Bactria.
and when the Assyrian camp was taken, her husband happened not to be there, having gone on an embassy to the king of Bactria;
The Histories
Eastern Persian territory where Darius resettled the exiled Barcaeans in a town they named Barce, which remained inhabited into Herodotus's own time.
As for the Barcaeans whom they had taken for slaves, they carried them from Egypt into banishment and brought them to the king, and Darius gave them a town of Bactria to live in.