Editing Makran (section)

===Ancient times===
After the victory of the [[Mauryan Empire]] against the Greeks in the [[Seleucid–Mauryan war]], Baluchistan came under the rule of [[Chandragupta Maurya]] of ancient India. Chandragupta and Seleucus made a peace settlement in 304 BCE. Seleucus I Nicator ceded the satrapies, including those in Baluchistan to the expanding Mauryan Empire.{{sfn|Kosmin|2014|p=33–34}} The alliance was solidified with a marriage between Chandragupta Maurya and a princess of the Seleucid Empire. An outcome of the arrangement proved to be mutually beneficial.{{sfn|Kosmin|2014|p=33–34}} The border between the Seleucid and Mauryan Empires remained stable in subsequent generations, and friendly diplomatic relations are reflected by the ambassador [[Megasthenes]], and by the envoys sent westward by Chandragupta's grandson [[Ashoka]].{{sfn|Kosmin|2014|p=33–34}}

====Sasanian Empire====
[[Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht|Shapur I's trilingual inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht]] in [[Naqsh-i-Rustam]], dated to 262 CE, had noted "Makuran"/"Makran" to be one of the many provinces of the [[Sasanian Empire]]:

[[File:Shapur Kabe Zartosht Pahlavi scripts.png|thumb|Parthian version of the Shapur I inscription at Ka'ba-ye Zartosht.]]
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And I ([[Shapur I]]) possess the lands: Fars {{bracket|[[Persis]]}}, Pahlav {{bracket|[[Parthia]]}}&nbsp;... and all of Abarshahr (all the upper (eastern, Parthian) provinces), [[Kerman]], [[Sakastan (Sasanian province)|Sakastan]], [[Turgistan]], [[Makuran]], Pardan {{bracket|[[Paradene]]}}, Hind {{bracket|[[Hind (Sasanian province)|Sind]]}} and [[Kushanshahr]] all the way to Pashkibur {{bracket|[[Peshawar]]?}} and to the borders of [[Kashgar]]ia, [[Sogdiana|Sogdia]] and Chach {{bracket|[[Tashkent]]}} and of that sea-coast Mazonshahr {{bracket|[[Oman]]}}.
|[[Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht]] (262 CE), translation by [[Josef Wiesehöfer]] (1996).<ref>The complete paragraph goes:<br>"And I [Shapur I] possess the lands: Fars [Persis], Pahlav [Parthia], Huzestan [Khuzistan], Meshan [Maishan, Mesene], Asorestan [Mesopotamia], Nod-Ardakhshiragan [Adiabene], Arbayestan [Arabia], Adurbadagan [Atropatene], Armen [Armenia], Virozan [Iberia], Segan [Machelonia], Arran [Albania], Balasagan up to the Caucasus and to the 'gate of the Alans' and all of Padishkhvar[gar] [the entire Elburz chain = Tabaristan and Gelan (?)], Mad [Media], Gurgan [Hyrcania], Marv [Margiana], Harey [Aria], and all of Abarshahr [all the upper (= eastern, Parthian) provinces], Kerman [Kirman], Sakastan, Turgistan, Makuran, Pardan [Paradene], Hind [Sind] and Kushanshahr all the way to Pashkibur [Peshawar?] and to the borders of Kashgaria, Sogdia and Chach [Tashkent] and of that sea-coast Mazonshahr ['Oman']."<br>in {{cite book |last1=Wiesehöfer |first1=Josef |author1-link=Josef Wiesehöfer |title=Ancient Persia : from 550 BC to 650 AD |date=1996 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |location=London |isbn=978-1860646751 |page=184}}</ref><ref>For a secondary source see {{cite book |last1=Kia |first1=Mehrdad |title=The Persian Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]: A Historical Encyclopedia |date=27 June 2016 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-391-2 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5BHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 |language=en}}</ref><ref>For another referenced translation, visible online, see: {{cite book |last1=Frye |first1=Richard Nelson |title=The History of Ancient Iran |date=1984 |publisher=C.H.Beck |isbn=978-3-406-09397-5 |page=371|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0y1jeSqbHLwC&pg=PA371 |language=en}}</ref>}}