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    Gedrosia (/dʒɪˈdroʊʒə/; Greek: Γεδρωσία) is the Hellenized name of the part of coastal Balochistan that roughly corresponds to today's Makran. In books...
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    Gedrosia the boundary is known: the country ceded was that between the Median Hydaspes (probably the Purali) and the Indus." With regard to Gedrosia,...
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    Gedrosia is a dry, mountainous country along the northwestern shores of the Indian Ocean. It was occupied in the Bronze Age by people who settled in the...
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    his empire, certainly Gandhara, Parapamisadae, and the eastern parts of Gedrosia, and possibly also Arachosia and Aria as far as Herat." Seleucus I received...
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    near Kabul. The Achaemenid Army was in great distress in the deserts of Gedrosia. In this expedition, he is said to have lost much of his army in the desert...
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    rather than streamlined bureacrayic control'." Gedrosia: Smith (1914, p. 149): "The satrapy of Gedrosia (or Gadrosia) extended far to the west, and probably...
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    540 BC. Cyrus first tried to conquer Gedrosia, however he was decisively defeated and departed Gedrosia. Gedrosia was most likely conquered during the...
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    Seleucus was defeated and the lands of Aria, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Gedrosia were ceded to the Mauryans in exchange for a matrimonial alliance and 500...
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  • Parthian and Sasanian empires (known as Mazun), corresponding to Greek Gedrosia, in the barren coastal areas of modern Pakistan and Iranian Baluchistan...
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    The Kulli culture was a prehistoric culture in southern Balochistan (Gedrosia) in Pakistan ca. 2500 - 2000 BCE. The pottery and other artifacts are similar...
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