sentences:  Gedrosia became famous in Europe when the Macedonian king Alexander the Great tried to cross the Gedrosian desert and lost one third of his men.Several scholars have argued that the Persian satrapy Maka is identical to Gedrosia (which is a Greek name).One argument is the similarity of the name Maka to the modern name Makran, a part of Pakistan and Iran that is situated a bit more to the east.