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The 20 pages that link to Bactria, each with the reason it gives.

• Kushan EmpireRelated: Bactria became the Kushans’ political base before their expansion southward.

• Amu DaryaRelated: The river bordered and supported this historic Central Asian region.

• GandharaRelated: Bactria lay northwest of Gandhara and helped connect it to Hellenistic and Central Asian worlds.

• Greco-Bactrian KingdomBroader topic: This region was the kingdom's political and territorial core.

• Zhang QianRelated: Where Zhang Qian spent a year observing commerce in goods that reached it from India and China.

• Hindu KushRelated: It lay north of the Hindu Kush and was connected to southern regions through its passes.

• Greco-Buddhist artRelated: Bactria connected Hellenistic artistic traditions with the regions where Buddhist art developed.

• YuezhiBroader topic: The Yuezhi settled in Bactria and made it the base of their later expansion.

• Hellenistic GreeceBroader topic: It shows Greek political and cultural forms taking root far beyond the Aegean.

• Bactria–Margiana Archaeological ComplexNarrower topic: The complex takes its name partly from this region, though its reach also included Margiana.

• Roxana (Macedonian queen)Narrower topic: Roxana’s marriage belonged to Alexander’s campaigns across the connected lands of Bactria and Sogdiana.

• ZoroasterRelated: Some proposed locations for Zoroaster’s life place him in or near this eastern Iranian region.

• History of AfghanistanBroader topic: Bactria was a major center of successive Iranian, Greek, and Central Asian powers.

• Menander IRelated: Bactria was the western homeland and political base of Greek dynasties entering India.

• Ai-KhanoumNarrower topic: Ai-Khanoum stood in this fertile and strategically placed region.

• History of UzbekistanRelated: Its southern lands connect Uzbekistan’s history to early Central Asian kingdoms.

• Indo-Scythian KingdomRelated: Bactria was a key crossroads on the routes linking Central Asian Saka groups with South Asia.

• Kujula KadphisesRelated: Bactria was the base from which Kujula expanded Kushan power.

• History of TajikistanBroader topic: Its southern lands formed an early political and cultural center in what is now Tajikistan.

• TaloqanNarrower topic: Taloqan lies within the broader historical landscape associated with ancient Bactria.