ARIANA
Ariana
Ariana, the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek Arianē, (inhabitants: Ariani, was a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of the ancient period for a district of wide extent between Central Asia and the Indus River, comprehending the eastern provinces of the Achaemenid Empire that covered the entire modern-day Afghanistan, central and eastern Iran, northwestern Pakistan, most of Tajikistan, most of Turkmenistan and southern Uzbekistan.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Ariana
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