Ambantae
The Ambantae were a tribe,[1] in the district of Paropamisis in Bactria[2][3] near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity,[4][5][2] and who were mentioned by Ptolemy,[6] Curtius and Strabo. Strabo records that their lands, though very cold in winter, were fertile.[7][8]
History
[edit]During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires the Ambantae lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai.[9]
They are mentioned in Claudius Ptolemaeus[10] and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul.[11]
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa[12] until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.
References
[edit]- ^ Philippus CLUVERIUS, Introductionis in universam geographiam (Leonard Lichfield, 1657) page 26.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ J. Vorstius Apud, Philippi Cluuerii Introductionis in universam geographiam, tam veterem quàm novam, libri VI. Cui adjuncta est Danielis Heinsii Oratio in obitum eiusdem Philippi Cluuerii. (L. Elizevirium, 1651) pages 263-264.
- ^ An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Part 1, Volume 4 (C. Bathurst, 1779)page 32.
- ^ Ptolemy 6:18:3.
- ^ Strabo xvi.3
- ^ Curtius Vii 3.
- ^ Vincent Arthur Smith, Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India (Asian Educational Services, 1997) page 11.
- ^ Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia: gewidmet Kardinal Aloysius Cornelius, Volume 0 (Vincentius Valgrisius, 1562) page 236
- ^ Biography of Chandragupta Maurya: Ancestry, Early Life and His Conquest.
- ^ 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.