Bactria

Bactria :country in northern Afghanistan, in Antiquity famous for its fierce warriors and its ancient religion, which was founded by the prophet Zarathustra. If there was ever a region that can be described with the old geographical cliché that it is a country of opposites, it must be Bactria. Situated between the Hindu Kush mountain range in the south and the river Oxus (Amudar’ya) in the north, it is essentially an east-west zone that consists of extremely fertile alluvial plains, a hot desert, and cold