The Parsii were a nomadic tribe,Philippus CLUVERIUS, Introductionis in universam geographiam (Leonard Lichfield, 1657) page 26. in the district of Paropamisadae in Bactria near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity.Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus (J. Murray, 1873) p 552-553.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58-59. They lived on the Oxus River,Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus (J. Murray, 1873) p274. centered on the city of Parsiia.
History 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.
They are mentioned in Claudius PtolemaeusClaudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia: gewidmet Kardinal Aloysius Cornelius, Volume 0 (Vincentius Valgrisius, 1562) page 236. and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. Biography of Chandragupta Maurya: Ancestry, Early Life and His Conquest.
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from nearby 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. until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58-59.
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