Bactria was inhabited by Greek settlers since the time of Darius I, when the majority of the population of Barca, in Cyrenaica, … See more

Before the Greek conquest, the armies of Bactria were overwhelmingly composed of cavalry and were well known as effective soldiers, making up large portions of the Achaemenid cavalry contingents. 2,000 Bactrian ho… See more

Greeks first began settling the region long before Alexander conquered it. The Persian Empire had a policy of exiling rebelling Greek communities to that region long before it fell to Greek conquest. Therefore, it had a con… See more

The below table lists the known Greek rulers of Bactria, along with their dates and titles or epithets.
Dates that overlap show that multiple kings ruled at the same time, but in different regions wh… See more

• Greco-Buddhism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom
• Indo-Scythians
• Ptolemaic Kingdom
• Seleucid Empire… See more

• Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009). Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-2994-1.
• Boardman, John (1994). The Diffusion o… See more