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Bactria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius crossed the Hindu Kush and began the conquest of Northern Afghanistan and the Indus valley. The Bactrians are one of the ancestral lines of the modern-day Tajiks of Central Asia as well as possibly the Pashtuns. By the time Zhang Xian visited Ta-Hia, there were no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi, who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bactria   (1270 words)

Bactrian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bactrian was probably spoken by the local populations of Bactria when Alexander the Great invaded the area around 323 BCE, inaugurating a two-century period of Hellenistic rule by the Seleucid Empire and the then the Greco-Bactrian kingdom. Bactrian seems to have been, together with Greek, the official language of the Kushans, descendant of the Yuezhi, and was used in their coins and inscriptions. The Bactrian language is an extinct language which was spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria, also called, in northern Afghanistan. bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bactrian_language   (278 words)

Articles - 230 BC Diodotus II of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom is killed and succeeded by Euthydemus I (according to Polybius). www.afinest.com /articles/230_BC   (193 words)

Encyclopedia: Greco-Bactrian Kingdom The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was founded by the Seleucid military governor of Bactria Diodotus around 250 BCE when he wrestled independence for his territory from the Seleucid Empire. Approximate extent of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom circa 220 BCE. Demetrius I, founder of the Indo-Greek kingdom (r.c. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greco_Bactrian-Kingdom   (9727 words)

Greco-Buddhist art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The origins of Greco-Buddhist art are to be found in the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250 BCE- 130 BCE), located in today’s Afghanistan, from which Hellenistic culture radiated into the Indian sub-continent with the establishment of the Indo-Greek kingdom (180 BCE-10 BCE). The art of Bactria was almost perfectly Hellenistic as shown by the archeological remains of Greco-Bactrian cities such as Alexandria on the Oxus (Ai-Khanoum), or the numismatic art of the Greco-Bactrian kings, often considered as the best of the Hellenistic world, and including the largest silver and gold coins ever minted by the Greeks. The clearest examples of Hellenistic art are found in the coins of the Greco-Bactrian kings of the period, such as Demetrius I of Bactria. www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Greco-Buddhist_art   (3386 words)

GRECO-BUDDHISM FACTS AND INFORMATION Later, the Eastern part of the Seleucid Kingdom broke away to form the Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom (3rd–2nd_century_BCE), followed by the Indo-Greek_Kingdom (2nd–1st_century_BCE), and later still by the Kushan Empire (1st–3rd century CE). In 125_BCE, the northern Indo-European Yuezhi nomads (the future Kushans, promoters of the Mahayana faith) took control of the Bactrian territory, and displaced the remaining Greco-Bactrians to the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. From 180_BCE, the Greco-Bactrians were further to expand into India, where they established the Indo-Greek kingdom. www.palfacts.com /Greco-Buddhism   (3340 words)

Indo-Scythian Their leader Gondophares temporarily displaced the Kushans and founded the Indo-Parthian Kingdom that was to last towards the middle of the 1st century CE. The presence of the Scythians in north-western India during the 1st century BC was contemporary with that of the Indo-Greek Kingdoms there, and it seems they initially recognized the power of the local Greek rulers. In the west, between 138-124 BCE, the Sakas came into conflict with the Parthian Empire, during the reign of Phraates II and Artabanus II. www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Indo-Scythian   (467 words)

Ai-Khanum patrick swayze Ai-Khanum Overall, Aï-Khanoum was extremely important Greek city (1.5 sq kilometer), characteristic of the Seleucid Empire and then the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. The last Greco-Bactrian king Heliocles moved his capital from Balkh around 125 BC and resettled in the Kabul valley. Lastly, its location at the junction between Bactrian territory and nomad territories to the north, ultimately allowed access to commerce with the Chinese empire. www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/Ai-Khanum/Ai-Khanum.html   (379 words)

Fergana Valley biography .ms After 250 BCE, the city probably remained in contact with the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom centered on Bactria, especially when the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus extended his control to Sogdiana. In the history of the Han Dynasty, based on the travels of Zhang Qian around 130 BCE, the region of Ferghana is presented as the country of the Ta-Yuan, possibly descendants of the Greeks colons (Ta-Yuan would be the transliteration of "Great Ionians"). fergana-valley.biography.ms   (896 words)

Dictionary.aspx?q=Yuezhi Bactria had been conquered by the Greeks under Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, and since settled by the Greek dynasties of the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians for two centuries. Later, the Yuezhi/Kushans established a kingdom centered on Kashgar around 120 CE, and introduced the Brahmi script, the Indian Prakrit language for administration, and Greco-Buddhist art which developed into Serindian art. In a sweeping analysis of the physical types and cultures of Central Asia that he visited in 126 BCE, Zhang Qian reports that "although the states from Dayuan west to Anxi (Parthia), speak rather different languages, their customs are generally similar and their languages mutually intelligible. www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=Yuezhi   (2449 words)

math lessons - Ta-Yuan The customs of the Ta-Yuan are said by Zhang Qian to be identical to those of the Bactrians in the south, who actually formed the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom at that time. The region then wrested independence under the leadership of its governor Diodotus of Bactria, to become the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. “The capital of the kingdom of Ta-Yuan is the city of Kwe-shan (Khujand), distant from Ch'ang-an 12,550 li. www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Ta-Yuan   (1472 words)

agesiles Agesiles (or Arseiles), who reigned around 20BC-1BC, is, with Sapadbizes, one of the first identified kings of the northern Indo-European Yuezhi tribes, that had invaded the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the region of Bactria (modern-day northern Afghanistan) from around 125 BC. www.yourencyclopedia.net /agesiles.html   (111 words)

128 BC The Greco-Bactrian kingdom is overrun by the Tocharians and renamed Tocharistan. www.mcfly.org /128_BC   (76 words)

IRANIAN HISTORY: PARTHIANS: Dynasty of Arsacid Empire - (CAIS at SOAS) © The first campaign of Mithridates I was probably directed against the Greco-Bactrian kingdom (between 160 and 155 B.C.) with the aim of reconquering the territories that had been lost in that region during the reign of Arsaces I, especially the area around Nisa. This Mithridates and his successors achieved in a series of campaigns against the Seleucid invaders and later the Romans in the west, and in the east against the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the nomadic peoples who again and again emerged from the steppes between the Oxus and the Jaxartes. The movements of the Parni and Dahae beginning in the area between the Oxus and the Jaxartesand ending in the immediate vicinity of the Seleucid satrapy of Parthava, are difficult to reconstruct and therefore a matter of dispute among historians. www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/ashkanian/arsacid_dynasty.htm   (7142 words)

Articles - Seleucid Empire Diodotus, governor for the Bactrian territory, asserted independence in 250 BC to form the Greco-Bactrian kingdom. This kingdom was characterized by a rich Hellenistic culture, and was to continue its domination of Bactria until around 125 BC, when it was overrun by the invasion of northern nomads. Despite the clear collapse of their power, and the decline of their kingdom around them, nobles continued to play kingmakers on a regular basis, with occasional intervention from Ptolemaic Egypt and other outside powers. www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Seleucid_dynasty   (1845 words)

Iranica.com - INDO-GREEK DYNASTY This state, which soon extended to embrace the whole of Bactria and Sogdia north of the Hindu Kush, is designated as the Greco-Bactrian kingdom. Gondophares, the founder of the Indo-Parthian kingdom, came to power towards the end of the reign of Azes II. In about 10 C.E. the Scythian Rajuvula, the satrap of Mathura (in the middle Ganges valley), conquered the last Greek bastion that had survived at Sagala (Sialkot) in the eastern Punjab, and thus under the reign of Strato II, Greek power in India came to an end. www.iranica.com /articles/supp4/Indo_Greeks.html   (921 words)

Artabanus I (from ancient Iran) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! But events in the neighbouring Greco-Bactrian kingdom worked against him: Diodotus II (accused, it is thought, of treason to Hellenism through his alliance with the nomads) lost his throne, which passed to Euthydemus by the time the Syrian army of the Seleucid king Antiochus III (the Great) arrived in Hyrcania. Because a much more important struggle, against the Bactrian kingdom of Euthydemus, awaited Antiochus, he preferred to make peace with Artabanus, to whom he accorded the title of king in exchange for recognition of his fealty, and he obliged the Parthian to send troops to reinforce the Syrian army. The protohistoric period and the kingdom of the Medes www.britannica.com /ebc/article-32131   (1320 words)

Diodotus I The founder of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, Diodotus c. Diodotus, Seleucid satrap of Bactria, rebelled against Antiochus II (about 255 BC) and became the founder of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom (Trogus, Prol. Diodotus Soter appears also on coins struck in his memory by the later Graeco-Bactrian kings Agathocles and Antimachus. www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/DiodotusI.html   (237 words)

All words on 141 BC Tocharian refugees appear on the borders of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom. www.allwords.org /14/141-bc.html   (115 words)

Sapadbizes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sapadbizes (or Sapalbizes), who reigned around 20BCE-1BCE, is one of the first identified kings of the northern Indo-European Yuezhi tribes, that had invaded the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the region of Bactria (modern-day northern Afghanistan) from around 125 BC. This page was last modified 22:48, 5 Jun 2005. Rev: Lion with Greek legend NANAIA repeated left and right (Moon goddess). www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sapadbizes   (125 words)

AllRefer.com - Tajikistan - Early History of Tajikistan - The Islamic Conquest - Persian Culture in Central Asia - The Samanids Tajikistani Information Resource Much, if not all, of what is today Tajikistan was part of ancient Persia's Achaemenid Empire (sixth to fourth centuries B.C.), which was subdued by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C. and then became part of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, one of the successor states to Alexander's empire. The Kushans, whose exact identity is uncertain, played an important role in the expansion of Buddhism by spreading the faith to the Soghdians,who in turn brought it to China and the Turks. By the early nineteenth century, the lands of the future Tajikistan were divided among three states: the Uzbek-ruled Bukhoro Khanate, the Quqon (Kokand) Khanate, centered on the Fergana Valley, and the kingdom of Afghanistan. reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/tajikistan/tajikistan8.html   (1073 words)

200 BC Year Philip V Macedon Gaul Hannibal Carthage Bacchanalia Euthydemus I Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Hsiung-nu » Euthydemus I of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom dies and is succeeded by his son Demetrius I of Bactria (approximate date). » Euthydemus I of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (approximate date). 200 BC Year Philip V Macedon Gaul Hannibal Carthage Bacchanalia Euthydemus I Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Hsiung-nu en.powerwissen.com /F43gPu91NTq7N0BYzPTDIQ==_200_BC.html   (290 words)

Articles - Euthydemus a ruler of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (3rd century BC); see Euthydemus I www.scannera.com /articles/Euthydemus   (35 words)

Articles - Greco-Buddhist art Bactria was under direct Greek control for more than two centuries from the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE to the end of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom around 125 BCE. The art of Bactria was almost perfectly Hellenistic as shown by the archeological remains of Greco-Bactrian cities such as Alexandria on the Oxus ( Ai-Khanoum), or the numismatic art of the Greco-Bactrian kings, often considered as the best of the Hellenistic world, and including the largest silver and gold coins ever minted by the Greeks. The clearest examples of Hellenistic art are found in the coins of the Greco-Bactrian kings of the period, such as Demetrius I of Bactria. www.postalesa.com /articles/Greco-Buddhist_art   (35 words)

Afghanistan History The Empire is reduces to independent local areas ruled either by Tochari tribal leaders or remnant Greco-Bactrian officials depending on who maintained the strongest local power. 147-141 BC Eucratides II: Last ruler and end of the Greco-Bactrian Empire with the rise of the Tochari Invasions: Demetrio leads a conquest of Southern and Eastern Afghanistan and the Punjab in the wake of the decline of the Maurya, Parthian and Seleucid Empires. www.comdev.org /afghanhistory/afhis05.html   (35 words)

"TERMEZ ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM" In 50s of the 3rd century Greco - Bactrian Empire headed by Diadotus was created and existed up to the middle of the 2nd c. Terracota statuettes are one of the kinds of fine art in North Bactria (Surkhan Oasis) in Greco-Bactrian period. These are naked people's images of ones in long dresses or goddesses mounted on the throne and etc. Some statuettes were made of ivory and marble and distinguished for their special elegancy and high art. archaeomuseum.freenet.uz /4e.htm   (35 words)

Opening ceremony of Great Alexander Exhibition in Tokyo Furthermore, today's exhibition is giving ample evidence of the influence of the Greco – Indian or Greco – Bactrian cultural heritage, which lasted for a number of centuries and was finally transmitted as far as to Japan. A glimpse of the transmission of the Greco – Bactrian civilization toward the Asian Continent and Japan was also given through the exhibitions held at this same Museum ("The Art of Gandhara, Pakistan” and The Art of Mathura, India") late last year. It was one century ago on the other hand, that coincidentally a Greek – Irish – Japanese writer, Lafcadio Hearn, in his attempt to interpret Japanese culture and religion, intuitively traced some of the similarities of Greco – Indian or Aryan – Indian cults with those of Japan. www.greece-japan.com /alexander_opening.htm   (35 words)

Seleucid Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bactrian territory asserted independence in 250 BC to form the Greco-Bactrian kingdom. Parthia territory of the Seleucid Empire around 250 B.C. as well, to form the Arsacid dynasty, starting point of the powerful Parthian Empire. Indus River) until Seleukos was assassinated in 281 B.C. The Seleucid empire disintegrated soon after into Parthia ( Arsaces as King), Syria ( Antiochus I as king) and Bactria ( Diodotus as king). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seleucid_Empire   (35 words)

Bactria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, but then its emergence, isolated thousands of miles from Greece, could only be described as a paradox. The paradox that Greek presence was more prominent in Bactria than in areas far more adjacent to Greece could possibly be explained by the supposed policy of Persian kings to deport unreliable Greek as colonists to this the most remote province of their huge empire. However, its cultural influences were not completely undone; an artistic style mixing western and eastern elements known as the Gandhara culture survived the empire for hundreds of years. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bactrian_Empire   (35 words)

bactria - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com Bactria's inhabitants spoke the Bactrian language, an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian languages sub-familly of Indo-European languages. 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). Bactria (known as Ta-Hia to the Chinese) was visited by the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE. www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/bactria   (35 words)

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