Quote Originally Posted by Marinakis
Yeah i am armenian (atleast a quarter armenian) and they took a huge amount of their culture from the greeks, they basicly spoke greek all the way up to modern times. Eventually they finally got together and created their frist national language.

However, my question put simply is before Alexander came to power, was there a nation known as Bactria (in whatever native linguistic variation of the name)
It was a satrapy under Persia.
Bessus, the one who murdered Darius III was satrap of Baktria too.

Apparently, Baktria had existed as a region for centuries before Alexander came, if not millenia. I think I read that Zoroastra himself preached in Baktria first and it was there he gained followers first.