Читать книгу A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set - Группа авторов - Страница 164

Claude Rapin

Extending to the east of the Caspian Sea and beyond the Hindukush range, the northeastern part of the Achaemenid Empire belongs, from a cultural point of view, to the Iranian world from the second millennium BCE. Its area covers the present northeastern Iran, northern Afghanistan, and part of the five Central Asian republics issued from the USSR. From its conquest by Cyrus and Darius I during the last third of the sixth century BCE until the expedition of Alexander the Great which concluded the reign of Darius III, the territory from an administrative point of view was distributed between Hyrcania, Parthia, Aria, Margiana and Bactria, Sogdiana, Chorasmia, and the northeastern peripheral Saka/Scythian territories (Vogelsang 1992).