Balochistan (region)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Aug 20, 2019 01:39 PM
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History
A desert and mountainous region located between the Plateau of Iran and the Indian subcontinent, comprising the modern regions of southeastern Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan province), western Pakistan (Balochistan province), and southern Afghanistan (Nimruz, Helmand and Kandahar provinces). The region's name is derived from the Baloch people, who have inhabited the region since at least the ninth century CE. In antiquity, the southern part of the region, along the coast of the Arabian Sea, was known as Maka in the Achaemenid period and Gedrosia in the Hellenistic period.
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- Representative Locations:
- Location of Balochistan (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Baluchistan (Balochistan: English, modern)
- بلوچستان (Balochistan: Urdu, modern)
- بَلوچِستان (Baluchistan: Modern Persian)
- Balochistan (region) located on Azanium Mare/Barbarikon Pelagos (unspecified date range)
- Chaarene/Arana part of (regional) Balochistan (region) (unspecified date range)
- Gedrosia part of (regional) Balochistan (region) (unspecified date range)
- Nausharo part of (regional) Balochistan (region) (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Balochistan (region): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/84624811> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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