Gedrosia (satrapy)

Gedrosia is a dry, mountainous country along the northwestern shores of the Indian Ocean.

The country was conquered by the Persian king Cyrus the Great (559-530 BCE), although information about his campaign is comparatively late.

The capital of Gedrosia was Pura, which is probably identical to modern Bampûr, forty kilometers west of Irânshahr.

Gedrosia became famous in Europe when the Macedonian king Alexander the Great tried to cross the Gedrosian desert and lost one third of his men.

One argument is the similarity of the name Maka to the modern name Makran, a part of Pakistan and Iran that is situated a bit more to the east.