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    The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (Greek: Βασιλεία τῆς Βακτριανῆς, romanized: Basileía tēs Baktrianēs, lit. 'Kingdom of Bactria') was a Greek state of the Hellenistic...
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    Bactria (redirect from Bactrian people)
    Bactria, 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...
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    of Greco-Indian Culture on Western Civilisation Some new hypotheses on the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms by Antoine Simonin Greco-Bactrian and...
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    Mauryan Empire, Buddhism continued to flourish under the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdoms, and Kushan Empire. Mahayana Buddhism was spread from...
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    War comprised several conflicts between the Shunga Empire and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. It is predominantly based on the Sanskrit play "Mālavikāgnimitram"...
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    including Assyria and what had been Babylonia, while the independent Greco-Bactrian Kingdom continued to flourish in the northeast. The Seleucid kings were...
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    Indo-Iranian peoples). It has also been known by names such as Greco-Bactrian or Kushan or Kushano-Bactrian. Under Kushan rule, Bactria became known as Tukhara or...
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    Tillya Tepe (redirect from Bactrian Gold)
    Seleucid empire and Greco-Bactrian Kingdom in the same area until around 140 BCE, and the continued existence of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in the northwestern...
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    (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom). This resulted...
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    Afghanistan became part of the Seleucid Empire followed by the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. Seleucus I Nicator was defeated by Chandragupta Maurya and gave...
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    Dayuan (category Bactrian and Indian Hellenistic colonies)
    and having "customs identical to those of the Daxia" or Greco-Bactrians, a Hellenistic kingdom that was ruling Bactria at that time in today's northern...
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  • documents in the Bactrian language in the Bactrian script (a variation of the Greek script dating back to the rule of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the area)...
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    when the Buddha had just attained enlightenment. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom, founded when Diodotus I, the satrap of Bactria (and...
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    peoples mentioned in classical European sources as having overrun the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, like the Tókharoi (Greek Τοχάροι; Sanskrit Tukhāra) and Asii (or...
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    as present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Indo-Greek Kingdom survived until the end of the first century BC. The...
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    the northern Indo-European Yuezhi tribes, that had invaded the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the region of Bactria (modern-day northern Afghanistan) from...
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  • (3rd century BC), ruler of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Euthydemus II (2nd century BC), ruler of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Euthydemus (tyrant) (3rd century...
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  • Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Byzantine Empire/ Byzantine Greeks, Byzantine...
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    features, including a Greek centaur and diadem, linking it to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (formed after the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander...
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    Diodotid dynasty (category Greco-Bactrian Kingdom)
    the Euthydemid dynasty, thus ending the dynasty's rule over the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. This is a theoretical family tree of the Diodotid kings of Bactria...
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    century, when it was allied with the Chinese kingdom of Șacū (Shazhou or Dunhuang). -200 GRECO BACTRIANS PAR- THIA SAKAS Korgantas Sargat Pazyryk Tagar...
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  • The Parthian–Bactrian War refers to the invasion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom by Mithridates I of Parthia in 150s BC, which ended with a Parthian victory...
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    developed the Greco-Buddhist art. This was evident during the reign of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250–130 BCE) and the Indo-Greek kingdom (180–10...
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    Koshano Shao in the Bactrian language) or "King of the Kushans", and to mint coins. They are sometimes considered as forming a "sub-kingdom" inside the Sasanian...
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    conquests of Alexander and those of the kings of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Indo-Greek Kingdom, from the 3rd to the 1st centuries BC. After Alexander's...
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    within India, down to the 1st century CE with the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Indo-Greek Kingdoms, with many noticeable influences on the arts of the...
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  • Vino Greco, a generic term for Roman wine made from grapes of Greek origins Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom (256–100 BCE) Greco (district...
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    The Kingdom of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان شاهي دولت, romanized: Dǝ Afġānistān Šahi Dawlat; Dari: پادشاهی افغانستان, romanized: Pādešāhī-ye Afġānistān)...
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  • Kidarites (redirect from Kidarite Kingdom)
    may have been the Chionites and the Hephthalites, before adopting the Bactrian language. The Kidarites were depicted as mounted archers on the reverse...
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    Euthydemid ruler of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and perhaps related with king Xiutu of Gansu. Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Seleucid Empire Greco-Buddhism Indo-Scythians...
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