The Indo-Greek Empire

 

 

The Indo-Greek Empire was a Hellenistic empire covering different parts of the northwest areas of the Indian subcontinent. It last in the year 2nd Century BCE. The kingdom was established when the Graeco-Bactrian lord Demetrius attacked the subcontinent right on time in the second century BC. The Greeks in South Asia were in the long run isolated from the Graeco Bactrians focused in Bactria (now the fringe in the middle of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan). However, the Greeks neglected to build an united control in north-western India. The most well known Indo-Greek ruler was Menander (Milinda). He had his capital at Sakala in Punjab, advanced Pakistan, and he effectively attacked the Ganges-Yamuna doab. The Indo-Greeks may have controlled the extent that the territory of Mathura until the first century BC: the Maghera engraving, from a town close Mathura, records the devotion of a well "in the one hundred and sixteenth year of the rule of the Yavanas", which could be as late as 70 BC. Before long however Indian rulers recouped the region of Mathura and south-eastern Punjab (cutting edge Southern Haryana), west of the Yamuna River, and began to mint their own particular coins. The Arjunayanas (territory of Mathura) and Yaudheyas notice military triumphs on their coins ("Victory of the Arjunayanas", "Triumph of the Yaudheyas"). All through the first century BC, the Indo-Greeks continuously lost ground to the Indians in the east, and the Scythians, the Yuezhi, and the Parthians in the West. Around 20 Indo-Greek lord are known amid this period, down to the last known Indo-Greek ruler, a ruler named Strato II, who led in the Punjab area until around 55 BC. Different sources, nonetheless, put the end of Strato II's rule as late as 10 AD  see underneath in the rundown of coins