The Parietae or Paryetae, were a tribe,Philippus CLUVERIUS, Introductionis in universam geographiam (Leonard Lichfield, 1657) page 26. in the district of Paropamisis,Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus (J. Murray, 1873) p. 553.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58–59. in Bactria near the Hinu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58–59.
During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires they lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai,Vincent Arthur Smith, Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India (Asian Educational Services, 1997) page 11. but latter came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa.N. N. Ghosh, Do The References To The Yavana Invasion Of India Found In The Yugapurana, Patanjali Mahabhashya And The Malavikagnimitra Form The Evidence Of One Single Event? Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 9 (1946), pp. 93–103.sea generally The Greeks in Bactria and India by W.W. Tarn, Cambridge University Press.
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