The Indo-Greek Kingdom, also known as the Yavana Kingdom, was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan...
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The History of the Indo-Greek Kingdom covers a period from the 2nd century BCE to the beginning of the 1st century CE in northern and northwestern Indian...
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century AD) Coin Indo-Greek Kingdom Indo-Sasanians Indo-Scythians Kushan Empire Yuezhi Pahlavas Kambojas "As a result, the Indo-Greek kingdom emerged to the...
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The legacy of the Indo-Greeks starts with the formal end of the Indo-Greek Kingdom from the 1st century, as the Greek communities of central Asia and...
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Within the Indo-Greek Kingdom there were over 30 kings, often in competition on different territories. Many of them are only known through their coins...
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Indo-Greek art Indo-Greek art is the art of the Indo-Greeks, who reigned from circa 200 BC in areas of Bactria and the Indian subcontinent. Initially...
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was contemporaneous with the Indo-Greek kingdoms there, and they apparently initially recognized the power of the local Greek rulers. Maues first conquered...
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the Classical pantheon of the Greek deities found on their coins (e.g., Zeus, Herakles, Athena, Apollo), the Indo-Greeks were involved with local faiths...
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and other Greeks. These colonists further strengthened the Greek population in the region, thereby laying the foundation of a Greek kingdom far in the...
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of Alexander the Great and later with the Indo-Greek Kingdom. A legendary account states that when the Greek God Bacchus/Dionysus grew up, he discovered...
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Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Greco-Bactrian...
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Nicias (Greek: Νικίας, Nikías; r. 90 – 85 BC) was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the Paropamisade. Most of his relatively few coins have been found in...
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Hellenistic period (redirect from Hellenism (Greek culture))
South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom). This resulted in an influx of Greek colonists and the export of Greek culture and language to these...
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century BCE) Indo-Greek Kingdom "A Maharaja named Amoghabhuti, who was the Raja of the Kunindas, is known from coins of the Indo-Greek module with legends...
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of their rule, the Indo-Greek kings combined the Greek and Indian languages and symbols, as seen on their coins, and blended Greek, Hindu and Buddhist...
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Theophilus Dicaeus (Ancient Greek: Θεόφιλος Δίκαιος, romanized: Theophilos Dikaios) was a minor Indo-Greek king who ruled for a short time in the Paropamisadae...
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Shunga Empire (category Empires and kingdoms of India)
indigenous powers. They fought the Kalinga, the Satavahana dynasty, the Indo-Greek kingdom and possibly the Panchalas and Mitras of Mathura. Art, education,...
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Apollodotus I (category Indo-Greek kings)
dating by Boperachchi) who ruled the western and southern parts of the Indo-Greek kingdom, from Taxila in the Punjab region to the areas of Sindh and possibly...
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Bactria (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Diodotus I; thus began the history of the Greco-Bactrian, and later the Indo-Greek, Kingdoms. By the second century BC, Bactria was conquered by the Parthian...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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Indo-Greek coins. The Kushan Empire, which succeeded the Indo-Greek Kingdom for nearly the next four hundred years, used the Greek alphabet and Greek...
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Maurya Empire around 317 BCE, became part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, around 200 BCE, annexed by the Indo-Scythians around 80 BCE, conquered, destroyed,...
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History of Afghanistan (section Indo-Greek Kingdom)
last Indo-Greek kings (Strato II and Strato III) were defeated in c. 10 CE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom was succeeded by the Indo-Scythians. The Indo-Scythians...
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Maurya Empire (category Ancient empires and kingdoms of India)
parts of northwestern India around 180 BCE, forming the Indo-Greek Kingdom. The Indo-Greeks would maintain holdings on the trans-Indus region, and make...
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Pushyamitra Shunga's Ashvamedha Yajna and for defeating forces of the Indo-Greek Kingdom along the banks of the Sindhu River. His achievements are mentioned...
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(230 BCE–220 CE) Kuninda Kingdom (c. 2600–350 CE) Shunga Empire (c. 185–73 BCE) Kanva dynasty (c. 73–26 BCE) Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BCE–10 CE) Kanva Empire...
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the history of the Indo-Greeks are few and disparate, leading to much uncertainty about the precise state of the Indo-Greek kingdom and its chronology...
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Sagala (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Madra Kingdom and it was razed in 326 BC during the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great. In the 2nd century BC, Sagala was made capital of the Indo-Greek...
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Kushan Empire (redirect from Kushana Kingdom)
present-day Pakistan and India), occupying the western part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom. In South Asia, Kushan emperors regularly used the dynastic name ΚΟϷΑΝΟ...
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The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of peoples who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the derived Indo-European languages, which...
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