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

Greek culture in Bactria
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 … See more

• Family tree of the Greco-Bactrian kings
• Greco-Buddhism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom
• Indo-Scythians
• Ptolemaic Kingdom See more

• Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms in Ancient Texts
• Some new hypotheses on the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms by Antoine Simonin
• Catalogue of Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins See more

Before the Greek conquest, the armies of Bactria were overwhelmingly composed of cavalry and were well known as effective soldiers, making up … 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 … 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 See more