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Greece–India relations are the bilateral relations between India and Greece.Greece has an embassy in New Delhi.India has an embassy in Athens.As of 2023, the relation between the two countries is closer than ever and is considered historical and strategic by both parts.
Indo-Greek kingdoms and Greco-Bactrian Kingdoms were founded by the successors of Alexander the Great (Greek conquests in India). Yavana era describes the period with Greek presence in India. According to Indian sources, Greek troops seem to have assisted Chandragupta Maurya in toppling the Nanda Dynasty and founding the Mauryan Empire. [65]
Bacchus/ Dionysus returning from ancient India. A legendary account states that when the Greek God Bacchus/Dionysus grew up, he discovered the culture of the vine and the mode of extracting its precious juice, being the first to do so; [1] but Hera struck him with madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth.
The Indo-Greek weight and size standard for silver drachms was adopted by the contemporary Buddhist kingdom of the Kunindas in Punjab, [citation needed] the first attempt by an Indian kingdom to produce coins that could compare with those of the Indo-Greeks. [55] In central India, the Satavahanas (2nd century BCE- 2nd century CE) adopted the ...
The Greeks in India even seem to have played an active role in the propagation of Buddhism, as some of the emissaries of Ashoka such as Dharmaraksita, [46] or the teacher Mahadharmaraksita, [47] are described in Pali sources as leading Greek ("Yona", i.e., Ionian) Buddhist monks, active in Buddhist proselytism (the Mahavamsa, XII). [48]
Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations (2 C, 15 P) G. Greek expatriates in India (1 C, 1 P) Greek Indologists (4 P) Greek people of Indian descent (1 C, 1 P) I.
The Roman historian Justin also mentioned the Indo-Greek kingdom, describing a "Demetrius, King of the Indians" ("Regis Indorum"), and explaining that after vanquishing him Eucratides in turn "put India under his rule" ("Indiam in potestatem redegit") [7] (since the time of the embassies of Megasthenes in the 3rd century BCE "India" was ...
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