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The Indo-Greek weight and size standard for silver drachms was adopted by the contemporary Buddhist kingdom of the Kunindas in Punjab, [citation needed] the first attempt by an Indian kingdom to produce coins that could compare with those of the Indo-Greeks. [55] In central India, the Satavahanas (2nd century BCE- 2nd century CE) adopted the ...
The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (Greek: Βασιλεία τῆς Βακτριανῆς, romanized: Basileía tês Baktrianês, lit. 'Kingdom of Bactria') was a Greek state of the Hellenistic period [2] [3] [4] located in Central Asia.
From the 1st century AD, the Greek communities of central Asia and the northwestern Indian subcontinent lived under the control of the Kushan branch of the Yuezhi, apart from a short-lived invasion of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. [324] The Kushans founded the Kushan Empire, which was to prosper for several centuries.
Alexandria Eschate was located 300 km north-west of the main Greek colonies in Central Asia, at Bactria. From 250 BC, the city likely had greater contact with Bactria, after the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus I extended his control into Sogdiana.
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
Preclassical Age regions of Anatolia/Asia Minor with main settlements. Classical regions of Asia Minor/Anatolia Regions of Asia Minor/Anatolia, c. 500 BC. Aegean Greek settlements italicised. This is a list of peoples who inhabited Anatolia in antiquity.
By 1939, with the help of the Greek embassy in the USSR, most foreign citizens of Greek origin left Baku for Greece. Two more waves of repression resulting in relocation to Central Asia and Siberia targeted Greeks of Azerbaijan with Soviet citizenship and took place in 1942 and 1949 respectively, as part of the Bolshevik campaign of "clearing ...
The Cappadocian Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar), [3] or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia; [4] [5] roughly the Nevşehir and Kayseri provinces and their surroundings in modern-day Turkey.