The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.230

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c10.s2.230

⁵ Arigaion (Arr. iv, 24, 7) and perhaps Nysa (Arr. v, 1, 1), which is not Ptolemy’s Dionysopolis. The garrisons left in Swat—Massaga, Ora, Bazira, Orobatis (Arr. iv, 25, 4-5)—did not necessarily become military colonies. (To V. Chapot, *Mélanges Glotz* 1932 p. 173, all Alexander’s foundations were essentially garrisons. The greater number were really military colonies; see pp. 6 sq.)

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Ἀλεξάνδρου ἀνάβασις — Λούκιος Φλάουιος Ἀρριανός, Ancient Greek
Bazira
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