Arachosia
Sign in to savethumb|Depiction of Arachosian magi carrying various gifts and animals for ritual sacrifice at [[Persepolis]]
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Arachosia
- Settlement.native_name
- () ()
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Satrapy
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Eastern Satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Map of the easternmost Persian satrapies, including Arachosia
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- y
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Empire
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
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- Etymology
- Geography
- History
- Inhabitants
- See also
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thumb|Depiction of Arachosian magi carrying various gifts and animals for ritual sacrifice at [[Persepolis]]
Arachosia (; ), or Harauvatiš (), was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. Mainly centred around the Arghandab River, a tributary of the Helmand River, it extended as far east as the Indus River. The satrapy's Persian-language name is the etymological equivalent of in Vedic Sanskrit. In Greek, the satrapy's name was derived from , the Greek-language name for the Arghandab River. Around 330 BCE, Alexander the Great commissioned the building of Alexandria Arachosia as Arachosia's new capital city under the Macedonian Empire. It was built on top of an earlier Persian military fortress after Alexander's conquest of Persia.