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	Diodotus of Bactria
		Diodotus, Seleucid satrap of Bactria, who rebelled against Antiochus II (about 255 BC) and became the founder of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom (Trogus, Prol.
		Soon afterwards he died and was succeeded by his son Diodotus II[?], who concluded a peace with the Parthians (Justin l.c.).
		Diodotus II was killed by another usurper, Euthydemus (Polyb.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Diodotus_of_Bactria.html (193 words)

	Bactria - LoveToKnow 1911
		BACTRIA (Bactriana), the ancient name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush (Paropamisus) and the Oxus (Amu Darya), with the capital Bactra (now Balkh); in the Persian inscriptions Bakhtri.
		Still less foundation exists for the belief, once widely spread, that Bactria was the cradle of the Indo-European race; it was based on the supposition that the nations of Europe had immigrated from Asia, and that the Aryan languages (Indian and Iranian) stood nearest to the original language of the Indo-Europeans.
		Diodotus and his successors were able to maintain themselves against the attacks of the Seleucids; and when Antiochus III., "the Great," had been defeated by the Romans (190 B.C.), the Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius crossed the Hindu Kush and began the conquest of eastern Iran and the Indus valley.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bactria (1363 words)

	Bactria Summary
		Bactria was bounded on the east by the ancient region of Gandhara.
		Bactria was originally the homeland of Aryan tribes who moved south-west Iran and into North-Western India around 2000-2500 BCE Later it became the north province of the Persian Empire in Central Asia.
		Diodotus and his successors were able to maintain themselves against the attacks of the Seleucids particularly Antiochus III the Great, who was ultimately defeated by the Romans (190 BC).
	www.bookrags.com /Bactria (1797 words)

	Bactria - MSN Encarta
		Bactria, ancient country in Central Asia; a satrapy (province) under the Achaemenids and later one of the Hellenistic states founded by the successors of Alexander the Great.
		Before the Greek conquest, Bactria was an eastern province of the Persian Empire.
		Bactria was subjugated in the 6th century bc by Cyrus the Great of Persia, and became part of the Persian Empire.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562034/Bactria.html (223 words)

	Diodotus I
		Diodotus was a contemporary, a neighbour, and probably an ally of Andragoras, the satrap of Parthia, who at about the same time also proclaimed independence from the Seleucid Empire.
		Diodotus, the governor of the thousand cities of Bactria (Latin: "Theodotus, mille urbium Bactrianarum praefectus"), defected and proclaimed himself king; all the other people of the Orient followed his example and seceded from the Macedonians.
		Diodotus II was subsequently killed by a usurper, Euthydemus, founder of the Greco-Bactrian Euthydemid dynasty (Polyb.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/DiodotusI.html (607 words)

	Diodotus I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diodotus was a contemporary, a neighbour, and probably an ally of Andragoras, the satrap of Parthia, who at about the same time also proclaimed independence from the Seleucid Empire.
		Diodotus, the governor of the thousand cities of Bactria (Latin: "Theodotus, mille urbium Bactrianarum praefectus"), defected and proclaimed himself king; all the other people of the Orient followed his example and seceded from the Macedonians.
		Diodotus II was subsequently killed by a usurper, Euthydemus, founder of the Greco-Bactrian Euthydemid dynasty (Polyb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diodotus_of_Bactria (603 words)

	Old Balkh
		Paktra; the classical writers named it Bactria, and after the conquests of Islam it has come to be called Balkh; a northern province of modern Afghanistan, which boarders to the north, the river Oxus and the former USSR.
		Bactria was the center from which other parts of the empire could be checked.For example, Bactria was a block to the northern barbers, and a policeman in central Asia and had easy access to the northern, eastern and western provinces.
		Although the history of early Bactria is vague, the historians gather that as early as the second millennium B.C., a powerful confederacy, centered in Bactria existed in South Central Asia.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/old_balkh.html (2065 words)

	Bactria History \| ema_01_package.xml
		Bactria lay between the Hindu Kush and the Amu Dar'ya River, in today's Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
		For the next half-century, Bactria was a province of the Seleucid empire, ruled by Alexander's Macedonian Greek successors, but during the reign of the satrap Diodotus I Soter (reigned c.
		Bactria remained an island of Greek culture in Central Asia and during its zenith controlled a significant part of what is now Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
	www.bookrags.com /history/bactria-ema-01 (462 words)

	Bactria - the land of gold --- Sairam Tourism
		Ancient Bactria, glorified by Hellenic historians as a great powerful state, is a vast historic area located on the both banks of the Amu Darya river, from the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan to the Hissar Mountain Range in Uzbekistan.
		It is obvious that the tribes residing in Bactria initially formed a part of Median kingdom and then became a part of Achaemenid kingdom.
		But in Bactria it was often used as attic bases for wooden columns, for incrustation of the surfaces, for manufacture of figured carving and statuettes.
	www.sairamtour.com /uzbekistan/bactria.html (1751 words)

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		The monarchy thus established extended from the Holy Land and the Mediterranean on the west, to the Indus valley and the Bolor mountain-chain upon the east, and from the Caspian and Jaxartes towards the north, to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean towards the south.
		Bactria was allowed to establish itself as an independent monarchy, without having to undergo the ordeal of a bloody struggle.
		Bactria, the next province to Margiana towards the east, was less uniformly fertile; but still it contained a considerable proportion of good land along the course of the Oxus and its tributaries, which was cultivated in vineyards and cornfields, or else pastured large herds of cattle.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/6/1/6/16166/16166-8.txt (19580 words)

	Bactria
		Bactria (Bâkhtri): country in northern Afghanistan, in Antiquity famous for its fierce warriors and its ancient religion, which was founded by the prophet Zarathustra.
		Situated between the Hindu Kush mountain range in the south and the river Oxus (Amudar'ya) in the north, it is essentially an east-west zone that consists of extremely fertile alluvial plains, a hot desert, and cold mountains.
		However this may be, Bactria was incorporated in the Achaemenid empire as a special satrapythat was sometimes ruled by the crown prince or intended heir (mathita).
	www.livius.org /ba-bd/bactria/bactria.html (1634 words)

	History
		But after nearly a century of Macedonian Greek rule by Alexander and his Seleucid successors, the nearly continuous war with Egypt weakened the Seleucids to the point that Diodotus of Bactria revolted and declared himself king circa 253 B.C. (Justin xli, 4.
		The Parthians took encouragement from Diodotus' success and in 247 B.C. rose against Andragoras, satrap of Parthia for Antichus II Theos (261-247 B.C.).
		During the second century B.C., the Parthians were able to extend their rule to Bactria, Babylonia, Susiana, and Media, and under Mithradates II
	www.parthia.com /parthia_history.htm (1218 words)

	Bactria.htm
		Bactria (Zariaspa) was an ancient country lying between the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (present day Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan).
		Euthydemus I deposed Diodotus II and became King of Bactria c.
		Most of the history of Bactria was surmised from their coins and other collateral evidence.
	www.worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C2/Greece/AG/HK/Bactria/Bactria.htm (484 words)

	Bactria - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In 256 BC, Diodotus I was made satrap, and a little later he assumed complete independence.
		The Seleucid ruler, Antiochus IV, sent Eucratidas into Bactria, and Eucratidas in 167 BC brought about the death of Demetrius but was himself slain in 159 BC Menander, Demetrius' general, continued to exercise power until his death in 145 BC Bactria later (c.130 BC) became part of the Kushan empire.
		Southern Bactria and northern India before Islam: a review of archaeological reports.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bactria.html (359 words)

	Bactria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Bactria (Bactriana) was the ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush (Caucasus Indicus) and the Amu Darya (Oxus), with the capital Bactra (now Balkh).
		It is not known whether Bactria formed part of the Median empire, but it was subjugated by Cyrus and from then formed one of the satrapies of the Persian empire.
		Diodotus and his successors were able to maintain themselves against the attacks of the Seleucids; and finally Antiochus III the Great defeated by the Romans (190 BC).
	www.info-pedia.net /about/bactria (829 words)

	Euthydemus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		EUTHYDEMUS, a native of Magnesia, who overturned the dynasty of Diodotus of Bactria, and became king of Bactria about 230 B.C. (Polyb.
		In 208 he was attacked by Antiochus the Great, whom he tried in vain to resist on the shores of the river Arius, the modern Herirud (Polyb.
		But he saw that he was not able to subdue Bactria and Sogdiana, and so in 206 concluded a peace with Euthydemus, through the mediation of his son Demetrius, in which he recognized him as king (Polyb.
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /Euthydemus (165 words)

	de Baktrien Bactria Bactriana was the ancient Greek Greek...
		Bactria was the home of one of the Iran Iranian tribes.
		Whether Bactria formed part of the Median empire, we do not know; but it was subjugated by Cyrus Cyrus and from then formed one of the satrap satrapies of the Persian empire.
		But Bactria was conquered by Alexander without much difficulty; it was only farther in the north, beyond the Oxus, in Sogdiana Sogdiana, where he met with strong resistance.
	www.biodatabase.de /Bactria (638 words)

	DIODOTUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		DIODOTUS, the satrap of Bactria-Sogdiana, who revolted against his Seleucid soverign Antiochus II (q.v.) and proclaimed himself king, thus laying the foundation of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom.
		In the first group, while keeping his sovereign's name, Diodotus introduced his own portrait instead of the portrait of Antiochus II, and replaced the most common Seleucid reverse type, Apollo seated on the Omphalus, by a full-length figure of a thundering Zeus with an eagle at his feet.
		It is evident that Diodotus, by minting them, took the final step to declare openly his independence.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v7/v7f4/v7f466.html (298 words)

	Bactria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		When Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire, the Bactrians, under Bessus, resisted stoutly, but they were subdued in 328.
		Bactria took on Greek culture, became quasi-independent, and theoretically remained part of the Seleucid empire.
		B.C., Diodotus I was made satrap, and a little later he assumed complete independence.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/Bactria.html (239 words)

	Ancient coins of Bactria and North-West India
		From this time down to the revolt of Diodotus from Antiochus II and the establishment by him of the independent kingdom of Bactria, it is difficult to distinguish among the Seleucid coins those which were issued in the far eastern provinces from the rest, as they are all of the Attic standard.
		For about a century (B.C. 250-150) the coins of the independent Bactrian kingdom follow the Attic standard and are purely Hellenic in character, the portraits of the kings are strikingly realistic, and the figures of the various Greek divinities which form the reverse types betray the skilful hand of the Greek artist.
		Greek civilization in Bactria was overwhelmed towards the end of the first half of the second century B.C. by hordes of Scythic invaders, called Sse or Sek (Sakas) by the Chinese historians of the period; and the Greek coinage was superseded by barbarous imitations (Num.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/bactria.html (3306 words)

	Euthydemus Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Euthydemus was allegedly a native of Magnesia and possible Satrap of Sogdiana, who overturned the dynasty of Diodotus of Bactria and became king of Bactria about 230 BC according to Polybius.
		But Antiochus saw that he was not able to subdue Bactria and Sogdiana, and so in 206 concluded a peace with Euthydemus, in which he recognized him as king, also promising to betroth one of his daughters to Euthydemus' son Demetrius.
		There exist many coins of Euthydemus, portraying him as a young, middle-aged and old man. Some of them could be memorative issues by his son and a later king, Agathocles.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/e/eu/euthydemus.html (219 words)

	Parasteshlite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		But after nearly a century of Macedonian Greek rule by Alexander and his Seleucid successors, the nearly continuous war with Egypt weakened the Seleucids to the point that Diodotus of Bactria revolted and declared himself king circa 253 B.C. (Justin xli, 4.
		The Parthians took encouragement from Diodotus' success and in 247 B.C. rose against Andragoras, satrap of Parthia for Antichus II Theos (261-247 B.C.).
		During the second century B.C., the Parthians were able to extend their rule to Bactria, Babylonia, Susiana, and Media, and under Mithradates II (c.
	www.parasteshlite.com /part.html (1227 words)

	Qurestion re: II/36 Graeco-Indian - Fanaticus Forum
		Diodotus I was the Seleucid satrap of Bactria and became independent.
		The Euthydemid dynasty which ruled after Diodotus I and II conquered most of Central Asia, eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and part of India.
		There is some dispute about dates and lineages; you can find different theories on the rise and fall of the Greeks in Bactria and India in various books on the subject.
	fanaticus.org /discussion/showthread.php?p=42855 (433 words)

	Ta Yuan - SgWiki
		The whole of Bactria, Transoxiana and the area of Ferghana remained under the control of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire until 250 BCE.
		The region then wrested independence under the leadership of its governor Diodotus of Bactria, to become the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.
		According to the Han Chronicles the Yuezhi suffered another defeat around 155 BC/BCE, against the Wusun, and fled south from the Ili river area, by-passed the urban civilization of the Ta-Yuan in Ferghana, and re-settled north of the Oxus in modern-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, definitively cutting Ta-Yuan from contact with the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
	www.sgwiki.com /wiki/Ta_Yuan (1790 words)

	Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
		Meanwhile, Bactria is the first part of the Kingdom of Seleucus to become alienated and independent, though under its Greek (shortly to become Buddhist) Kings, it is still a fully Hellenistic successor Kingdom.
		At the beginning of March, 2001, the rulers of Afghanistan, the barbarous zealots of the Tâlibân ("students"), decided to destroy all the "idols" in the country, which meant the entire collection of Buddhist art in the Kabul museum, and the two great cliff carved Buddhas in Bamian province, 175 and 120 feet tall.
		Meanwhile, the Greek presence in Bactria is crumbling.
	www.friesian.com /hist-1.htm (15064 words)

	Notes on Bactria
		Bactria was a province whose capitol was Bactra, present-day Wazirabad, formerly Balkh, and is very close to present day
		Bactria was one of the 127 Persian provinces mentioned in the Book of Esther:
		In 256 BC, the Seleucid satrap (Governor) Diodotus I 256-235 BC established it as a separate kingdom.
	www.spongobongo.com /her9919.htm (112 words)

	KRITT, B., Dynastic Transitions in the Coinage of Bactria. Antiochus-Diodotus-Euthydemus. Classical Numismatic Studies, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		KRITT, B., Dynastic Transitions in the Coinage of Bactria.
		Now a number of new coins have appeared which have provided evidence allowing for the exploration and decipherment of the structure of the coinages in Bactria to the end of the third century BC.
		This has made possible the development in the current study of a clearer picture of the circulation and diffusion patterns of bronze coins from the Bactrian mints of the third century, providing an important new tool for mint identification.
	www.polybiblio.com /spink/495.html (378 words)

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