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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.
		The founder of the Indo-Greek Kingdom Demetrius I (205-171 BC), wearing the scalp of an elephant, symbol of his conquest of India.
	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).
		From 180_BCE, the Greco-Bactrians were further to expand into India, where they established the Indo-Greek kingdom.
		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.
	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, AÃ¯-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.
		The Greeks were to go on controlling various parts of northern India under the Indo-Greek Kingdom until around 1 BC, until the Yuezhi further expanded in northern India themselves, to form the Kushan 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
		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.
		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.
		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.
		According to the Roman historian Justin (41.4, based on Pompeius Trogus' Historiae Philippicae), when Arsaces was about to throw off the yoke of the Seleucids in Parthia (around mid-third century B.C.E.), Diodotus, the Seleucid satrap of Bactria, also revolted against his suzerain and established an independent kingdom there.
	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.
		Arsaces, the chieftain of the nomadic (Dahan) tribe of the Parni, fled before him into Parthia and here became the founder of the Parthian kingdom (Strabo l.c.).
	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.
		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.
		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.
	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)

	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.
		He is technically the last Greco-Bactrian king, although the Indo-Greek Kingdom founded by Demetrius continued in northern India until around 1 BCE.
		At about the same time in the West, the Parthian dynasty of the Arsacides was rising, therefore cutting the Greco-Bactrians from direct contacts with the Greek world.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Greco-Bactrian (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)

	IRANIAN HISTORY: PARTHIANS: Dynasty of Arsacid Empire - (CAIS) ©
		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.
		In the following decades the Seleucids were mostly to concentrate their interest and their power on the western half of their vast kingdom, particularly as a result of their struggles against the Lagids for dominance in Syria.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/ashkanian/arsacid_dynasty.htm (7140 words)

	The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Transoxiana - Draft
		History: Ancient History (Ancient Khorezm, Ancient Bactrian Kingdom, New Stone, Copper and Bronze Ages, Kushan Kingdom, Kangju, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, The State of Seleucids, Alexander the Great in Central Asia), Middle Ages, Uzbek Khanates, Russian Conquest, Uzbek Soviet Republic, Prominent People, Historical Sigths, Historical Museums Science and Culture: Culture, Literature, Urban Planning, Science
		Contents: The Yavanas (Greek Bactrians, mid-3rd to mid-2nd c.
		32-35 of 'Dated documents', Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan.
	www.paolaraffetta.com.ar /WWWVL/Transoxiana.html (7140 words)

	History of Tajikistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After collapse of Macedonian Empire Greek generals continued some home to rule for another 200 hundred years with the name Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.
		Just before the Arab invasion Central Asia was divided into many fraction that could never have been joined together such as the Kingdom of Merv, Sogdiana, Bactria, Chorazmia, Badakhshan the only exception was Kushan Empire that was diminished to the land of only eastern Iran at the end.
		For another 400 hundred years till 410 AD the Kushan Empire will be the major power along with Roman, Parthian (Iran) Empire and Hun Empire (China).
	en2.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Tajikistan (7140 words)

	Buddhist art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The art of Gandhara benefited from centuries of interaction with Greek culture since the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE and the subsequent establishment of the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms, leading to the development of Greco-Buddhist art.
		The capital of the kingdom of Champa was annexed by Vietnam in 1471, and it totally collapsed in the 1720s.
		Cambodia was the center of the Funan kingdom, which expanded into Burma and as far south as Malaysia between the 3rd and 6th centuries CE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist_art (4147 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 (4147 words)

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