The Ambantae were a tribe, [1] in the district of Paropamisis in Bactria [2] [3] near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity, [4] [5] [2] and who were mentioned by Ptolemy, [6] Curtius and Strabo. Strabo records that their lands, though very cold in winter, were fertile. [7] [8]
During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires the Ambantae lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai. [9]
They are mentioned in Claudius Ptolemaeus [10] and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. [11]
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa [12] until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.
The Ambantae were a tribe, [1] in the district of Paropamisis in Bactria [2] [3] near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity, [4] [5] [2] and who were mentioned by Ptolemy, [6] Curtius and Strabo. Strabo records that their lands, though very cold in winter, were fertile. [7] [8]
During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires the Ambantae lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai. [9]
They are mentioned in Claudius Ptolemaeus [10] and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. [11]
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa [12] until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.