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  2. Timeline of Indian history - Wikipedia

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    It was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of Afghanistan and the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent (parts of modern-day Pakistan and northwestern India). The kingdom was founded when the Graeco-Bactrian king Demetrius (and later Eucratides ) invaded India from Bactria in 200 BCE.

  3. Indo-Greek Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Some narrative history has survived for most of the Hellenistic world, at least of the kings and the wars; [82] this is lacking for India. The main Greco-Roman source on the Indo-Greeks is Justin , who wrote an anthology drawn from the Roman historian Pompeius Trogus , who in turn wrote, from Greek sources, at the time of Augustus Caesar . [ 83 ]

  4. History of the Indo-Greek Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Hellenistic world view just before the Indo-Greek conquests. India appears fully formed, with the Ganges and Palibothra (Pataliputra) in the east.(19th-century reconstruction of the ancient world map of Eratosthenes (276–194 BCE).

  5. Greek campaigns in India - Wikipedia

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    Hellenistic satrapies in ancient India after Alexander. Alexander left behind Greek forces which established themselves in the city of Taxila, now in Pakistan. Several generals, such as Eudemus and Peithon governed the newly established province until around 316 BC. One of them, Sophytes (305–294 BC), was an independent Indian prince in the ...

  6. Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations - Wikipedia

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    [28] [29] The Indian theater had adopted some elements of Greek comedy. [30] Kalidasa mention the Yayanis (Greek maidens) in his work. [31] Hellenistic influence on Indian art is well documented. Gandhara art was heavily influenced by the Greek style. The Art of Mathura is a blend of Indian and Greek art.

  7. Hellenistic period - Wikipedia

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    In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, [1] which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last ...

  8. 3rd century BC - Wikipedia

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    The Lion Capital of Ashoka of Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India, now the National Emblem of India, 3rd century BC, dated to the reign of Ashoka the Great during the Maurya Empire. 279 BC: Singidunum and Taurunum, today's Belgrade and Zemun, are founded by Scordisci Celts. After failing to decisively defeat the Romans, Pyrrhus of Epirus withdraws ...

  9. History of India - Wikipedia

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    Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across