Parsii (tribe)
{{short description|Bactrian tribe}}
{{distinguish|text=Parsi, the Zoroastrian community of India}}
The Parsii were a nomadic tribe,Philippus CLUVERIUS, Introductionis in universam geographiam (Leonard Lichfield, 1657)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=P_6ZCo7K5nQC&dq=Ambantae&pg=RA1-PA263 page 26]. in the district of Paropamisadae in Bactria near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity.Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: [https://books.google.com/books?id=oTIGAAAAQAAJ&dq=Ambantae&pg=PA552 Iabadius-Zymethus] (J. Murray, 1873) p 552-553.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) [https://books.google.com/books?id=XcFo8ep0e9QC&dq=Ambantae&pg=PA58 page 58-59]. They lived on the Oxus River,Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: [https://books.google.com/books?id=oTIGAAAAQAAJ&dq=Ambantae&pg=PA552 Iabadius-Zymethus] (J. Murray, 1873) p274. centered on the city of Parsiia.
History
File:BactriaMap.jpgDuring the Hellenistic and Persian Empires they lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai.Vincent Arthur Smith, Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India (Asian Educational Services, 1997) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4o_URem5WMcC&dq=Paropani&pg=PA11 page 11].
They are mentioned in Claudius PtolemaeusClaudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia: gewidmet Kardinal Aloysius Cornelius, Volume 0
(Vincentius Valgrisius, 1562) page [https://books.google.com/books?id=uH1OAAAAcAAJ&dq=Paropani&pg=PA236 236]. and appear on [https://books.google.com/books?id=uH1OAAAAcAAJ&dq=Paropani&pg=PA236 map XI] of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul.[http://www.historydiscussion.net/biography/chandragupta-maurya/biography-of-chandragupta-maurya-ancestry-early-life-and-his-conquest/5716 Biography of Chandragupta Maurya: Ancestry, Early Life and His Conquest].
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from nearby Kupisa.N. N. Ghosh , Do The References To The Yavana Invasion Of India Found In The Yugapurana, Patanjali Mahabhashya And The Malavikagnimitra Form The Evidence Of One Single Event? Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 9 (1946), pp. 93-103. until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) [https://books.google.com/books?id=XcFo8ep0e9QC&dq=Ambantae&pg=PA58 page 58-59].