Gedrosia

Gedrosia ( Gedrosia ) is the ancient name of a barren mountain region in the south of present-day Iran and Pakistan, which is one of the driest in the world. It bordered on the south by the Gulf of Oman in the east to the Indus valley, in the north of Arachosia and whistles Gianien and to the west by Carmania.

Gedrosia was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire, among others, and was crossed by Alexander the Great, this 325 BC returned from his Indian campaign. Because of the harsh climate of Macedon king is having lost three quarters of its soldiers. Some historians see this as a punishment of Alexander, as his soldiers did not want to support him enough during his India campaign.

In the Islamic period, ie in the Middle Ages, the inaccessible, inhabited by nomadic desert peoples of the region was known as the Makran; later the name of Balochistan was common.