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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. Many of the dates, territories, and relationships between Indo-Greek kings are tentative and essentially based on numismatic analysis (find places, overstrikes, monograms, metallurgy, styles), a few Classical writings, and Indian writings and ...
The Indo-Greeks ultimately disappeared as a political entity around 10 AD following the invasions of the Indo-Scythians, although pockets of Greek populations probably remained for several centuries longer under the subsequent rule of the Indo-Parthians, the Kushans, [b] and the Indo-Scythians, whose Western Satraps state lingered on ...
The Indo-Greeks continued to maintain themselves in the eastern Punjab for several decades, until the kingdom of the last Indo-Greek king Strato II was taken over by the Indo-Scythian ruler Rajuvula around 10 CE. The coins of these Indo-Greek rulers deteriorated constantly, both in terms of artistic quality (due to the long isolation) and in ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Indo-Greek Kingdom: Shunga Empire: Adivasi (tribes) Early Cholas Early Pandyan Kingdom Satavahana dynasty Cheras 1st century BCE: Yona: Maha-Meghavahana Dynasty 1st century CE: Indo-Scythians Indo-Parthians: Kuninda Kingdom 2nd century: Pahlava: Varman dynasty 3rd century: Kushan Empire: Western Satraps: Kamarupa kingdom Kalabhra dynasty: Culture
During its existence, the kingdom was ruled over by 30 successive kings, with Menander I being the most famous Indo-Greek king. 184 BCE: The Mauryan Empire, declines 165/155 BCE Menander I becomes the king of the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
The 36 Indo-Greek kings known through epigraphy or through their coins belong to the period between 180 BC to AD10–20. [2] There are a few hints of a later Indo-Greek political presence in the Indian subcontinent. Theodamas, known from an inscription on a signet, may have been an Indo-Greek ruler in the Bajaur area in the
Below are family trees of the Euthydemid, Eucratid, and Menanderid dynasties. [1] [2] [3] The Greek connection to the Qin emperors of China is shown below, and with this connection (and with Chandragupta Maurya's marriage to Seleukos's daughter, see Eucratids below), the ancient kings of Persia, India, Greece, and China, oddly enough, are all related.