Vandabanda
Οὐανδαβάνδα
Vandabanda (Οὐανδαβάνδα, Ptol. 6.12.4), a district of Sogdiana, between the Mons Caucasus (Hindú--Kúsh) and the Imaus (Himáleh). It is probably nearly the same as the present Badakhshán (Wilson, Ariana, p. 164).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.