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Aria Areia/Aria, Aria, representing ancient region of Herat the name of the region was mentioned by both Rig Veda and also mentioned as Haraiva, in Awestan Haraeuua), name of a region in the eastern part of the Persian empire after Medians conquered the area. Aria was an Old Persian satrapy, which enclosed chiefly the valley of the Hari River (Greek Areios, this being eponymous to the whole land according to Arrian (Anabasis 4.6.6) and which in antiquity was considered as particularly fertile and, above all, rich in wine; its capital was Alexandria probably since 330 BCE.
Aria is located in the land south of Margiana south west of Bactria, in the east of Parthia, north of Drangiana and in the west of the Paropamisadae is described in a very detailed manner by Ptolemy (6.17; cf. Strabo 11.10.1) and corresponds, according to that, almost to the province Herat of today's Afghanistan.
In this sense the term is used correctly by some writers, e.g. Herodotus (3.93.3, where the Areioi are mentioned together with the Parthians, Chorasmians, and Sogdians); Diodorus (17.105.7; 18.39.6); Strabo (2.1.14; 11.10.1, cf. also 11.8.1 and 8; 15.2.8 and 9); Arrian (Anabasis 3.25.1); Pomponius Mela (1.12, where we read that “nearest to India is Ariane, then Aria”).
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