The Indo-Greek Kingdoms were a group of Hellenistic states in northwestern South Asia, in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, ruled by Greek kings who had come from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. Rulers such as Demetrius I and Menander I held territory around Taxila and Sagala, and their coins, with Greek inscriptions on one side and local scripts on the other, show a blend of cultures. Menander is remembered in Buddhist texts as Milinda, a king who debated with the monk Nagasena. A Greek ambassador named Heliodorus set up a pillar in honor of Vishnu at Besnagar. The Indo-Greek states were gradually absorbed by Scythian and Parthian groups, and then by the Kushans.
Before and after
- 196 BCERosetta Stone
- from 192 BCE to 188 BCERoman–Seleucid War
- 190 BCEBirth of Hipparchus
- 183 BCEDeath of Hannibal
- from 180 BCE to 10 CEIndo-Greek Kingdoms
- 2nd century BCEWinged Victory of Samothrace
- from 171 BCE to 168 BCEThird Macedonian War
- 167 BCERise of Maccabees
- 167 BCERise of Hasmonean dynasty
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