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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. [1] [2]
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.
Bindusara, the second Mauryan emperor of India, had diplomatic relations with and very friendly feelings towards the Greeks. He even asked Antiochus I Soter to send him a Greek sophist for his court. Megasthenes had traveled to India and had several interviews with Chandragupta Maurya, known as Sandracottus to the Greeks. [66]
The prime ministers of India and Greece pledged to boost their countries’ trade, business and defense ties Friday during a visit to Athens by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi’s visit ...
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Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis was the chief guest. [4] The conference saw the participation of foreign ministers from the Nordic-Baltic Eight group of countries, which was the first high-level delegation of this group outside Europe.
Although the political power of the Greeks had waned in the north, mainly due to nomadic invasions, trade relations between the Mediterranean and India continued for several centuries. The trade started by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 130 BCE kept on increasing, and according to Strabo (II.5.12), by the time of Augustus , up to 120 ships were setting ...
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]