Gedrosia was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire, corresponding to modern Pakistani Balochistan. The capitol of the satrapy was Pura which is probably identical to modern Bampûr, forty kilometers west of Irânshahr. Several scholars have argued that the Persian satrapy Maka is identical to Gedrosia (which is a Greek name), due to its similarity to the modern name Makran, a part of Pakistan that is situated a bit more to the east. However, it is more likely that Maka is to be sought in modern Oman, which was called Maketa in Antiquity (see Maka (satrapy)).[1]
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