Herodotus mentions the inhabitants of Maka as "Mykians" who were previously involved in several conquests with Cyrus the Great. After the conquest of Egypt with Cambyses, they went into Sindh under the command of Darius I and fought the army of Leonidas for Xerxes the great at the battle of Thermopylae, where they were equipped the same as Pactyans, Utians and Paricanians, the tribes adjacent to the Mykians.
The word Maka later became Makran as it is common in closely related ancient Avestan and Old Persian languages to use "an" and "ran" at the end of plurals,which then translates as "the land of Mykians". They are mentioned as "the men from Maka" in daeva inscriptions. The Mykians of the other side of ancient Maka, the present-day region of Balochistan and Sindh, had later taken independence because they are not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of Alexander the Great.
Ferdowsi described the Baloch as part of the army of Cambyses (Siahwash), son of Kay Khosrow of the Achaemenid Dynasty. Baloch were also part of the army of Humayun under the command of Mir Chakar Rind against Suri Afghans in Delhi in 1556. Baloch were also part of the army of Ahmed Shah Durrani against Persians in Nishapur and Mashhad, in 1751 against the Marathas in Battle of Panipat (1761) and against Sikh in Punjab in 1765 under the command of Khan of Kalat Mir Noori Naseer Khan Baloch.
The Baloch tribes have ruled over Sindh, southern Punjab and southern Afghanistan till the arrival of the British in the 1850s.
The word Maka later became Makran as it is common in closely related ancient Avestan and Old Persian languages to use "an" and "ran" at the end of plurals,which then translates as "the land of Mykians". They are mentioned as "the men from Maka" in daeva inscriptions. The Mykians of the other side of ancient Maka, the present-day region of Balochistan and Sindh, had later taken independence because they are not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of Alexander the Great.
Ferdowsi described the Baloch as part of the army of Cambyses (Siahwash), son of Kay Khosrow of the Achaemenid Dynasty. Baloch were also part of the army of Humayun under the command of Mir Chakar Rind against Suri Afghans in Delhi in 1556. Baloch were also part of the army of Ahmed Shah Durrani against Persians in Nishapur and Mashhad, in 1751 against the Marathas in Battle of Panipat (1761) and against Sikh in Punjab in 1765 under the command of Khan of Kalat Mir Noori Naseer Khan Baloch.
The Baloch tribes have ruled over Sindh, southern Punjab and southern Afghanistan till the arrival of the British in the 1850s.