. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . thence they made their way into the narrow valleys ofthe Haroyu, and overran Vaekereta, the land of noxiousshadows.^ From this point forwards, the countries 1 Sughdha is Sogdiana; Muru, in ancient Persian Margush, is themodem Merv, the Margiana of classical geographers. 2 Bakhdhi is identical with Bactriana, but, as Spiegel points out, thisAvestic form is comparatively recent, and readily suggests the modern Balkh,in which the consonants have become weakened. 2 The Avesta places Nisaya between Muru and Bakhdhi to distinguishit from ot
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . thence they made their way into the narrow valleys ofthe Haroyu, and overran Vaekereta, the land of noxiousshadows.^ From this point forwards, the countries 1 Sughdha is Sogdiana; Muru, in ancient Persian Margush, is themodem Merv, the Margiana of classical geographers. 2 Bakhdhi is identical with Bactriana, but, as Spiegel points out, thisAvestic form is comparatively recent, and readily suggests the modern Balkh,in which the consonants have become weakened. 2 The Avesta places Nisaya between Muru and Bakhdhi to distinguishit from other districts of the same name to be found in this part of Asia:Eugene Bumouf is probably correct in identifying it with the Nessea ofStrabo and of Ptolemy, which lay to the south of Margiana, at the junctionof the roads leading to Hyrcania in one direction and Bactriana in the other. VOL. VIII. T 274 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDvEAN EMPIRE mentioned by tlieir clironiclers are divided into twogroups, lying in opposite directions : Aralivaiti, Haetmnant,. THE LANDS created by /—2^=-^AHURA- MAZDA Scale Desert^^f Media. \ >.
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