CoinsĪfter the death of Menander I, his successors seem to have been pushed back east to Gandhara, losing the Paropamisadae and Arachosia to a Western Indo-Greek kingdom. 130-125 BCE), Probably widow of Menander, Queen-Mother and regent for her son Strato I. Legendary for the size of his Kingdom, and his support of the Buddhist faith. Eucratides was then murdered by his son, thereafter Menander I seems to have regained all of the territory as far west as the Hindu-Kush Territory from Hindu-Kush to Mathura (150 - 125 BCE) The usurper Eucratides managed to eradicate the Euthydemid dynasty and occupy territory as far as he Indus, between 170 and 145 BCE. Territories of Paropamisadae to Mathura (house of Euthydemus) The Eastern part, made of the Paropamisadae, Arachosia, Gandhara and Punjab, perhaps as far as Mathura, was ruled by a succession of kings, called "Indo-Greek": ![]() The Western part made of Bactria was ruled by a succession of Greco-Bactrian kings until the end of the reign of Heliocles around 130 BCE. The territory ruled by Demetrius, from Bactria to Pataliputra, was then separated between western and eastern parts, and ruled by several sub-kings and successor kings. Greco-Bactrian king, and conqueror of India. Demetrius I, founder of the Indo-Greek kingdom (r.c.
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