Roxana
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Roxana sometimes known as Roxanne, Roxanna, Roxzana, and Roxane, was a Bactrian or Sogdian princess who married Alexander the Great after he invaded Persia and defeated Darius, ruler of the Achaemenid
Alexander the Great and Roxana, 1756 painting by Pietro Rotari
The Wedding of Alexander and Roxane (1898–1899), an engraving by André Castaigne.
Bactria
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Bactria, or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia, located in the area south of the Oxus River and north of the Hindu Kush mountains, within modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Roxana
…Iranian: *Raṷxšnā- "shining, radiant, brilliant", Persian: روشنک, romanized: Rawšanak) sometimes known as Roxanne, Roxanna, Roxzana, and Roxane, was a Bactrian or Sogdian princess who married Alexander the Great after he invaded Persia and defeated Darius, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire. Roxana was the daughter…
Xerxes I tomb, Bactrian soldier c. 470 BC.
Pre-Seleucid Athenian owl imitation from Bactria, possibly from the time of Sophytes.
Gold stater of the Greco-Bactrian king Eucratides
The treasure of the royal burial Tillia tepe is attributed to 1st century BC Sakas in Bactria.