Paropamisadae

Paropamisadae or Parapamisadae (Ancient Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι or Παροπανισάδαι) was a satrapy of the Alexandrian Empire in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan, which largely coincided with the Achaemenid province of Parupraesanna.

[5] In many Greek and Latin sources, particularly editions of Ptolemy's Geography[10] where their realm is included on the 9th Map of Asia,[11] the names of the people and region are given as Paropanisadae and Paropanisus.

Alexander took these away from the Arians and established settlements of his own, but Seleucus I Nicator gave them to Sandrocottus, upon terms of intermarriage and of receiving in exchange 500 elephants.

[13] The nations who composed the Paropamisadae are recorded as the Cabolitae (Καβολῖται) in the north near modern Kabul; the Parsii (Πάρσιοι) in the northwest, the Ambautae (Ἀμβαῦται) in the east and the Par(g)yetae (Παρ(γ)υῆται) in the south, who were also found in Arachosia.

[citation needed] In the ancient Buddhist texts, the Mahajanapada kingdom of Kamboja compassed the territories of Paropamisus and extended to the southwest of Kashmir as far as Rajauri.

Statue of an Indus priest or king found in Mohenjodaro, 1927
Note the wider conception of what is today Paropamisus Mts. Here it is the whole northern side of the extensions of Hindukush, map from 1873
Note the probably wrong position of what is today Paropamisus Mts. Here it is on the south side of Hari river , map from 1922
The provinces of the Achaemenid Empire
Map from Francesco Berlinghieri 's 1482 Seven Days of Geography .
The Hellenistic World in late 281 BC