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The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was a manual written in Greek for navigators who carried trade between the Roman Empire and other regions, including ancient India. It gives detailed information about the ports, routes and commodities. Ancient Greek and Roman writers also describe the ports of the Arabia Felix, which were used for the Indian ...
E. Sreedharan argues that, from the turn of the century until the 1960s, Indian historians were often motivated by Indian nationalism. [34] Peter Hardy notes that the majority of modern historical works on medieval India up until then were written by British and Hindu historians, whereas the work of modern Muslim historians was under ...
A Historical Atlas of India. New York: Rosen Pub. Jordan, William Chester. (1996) The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students (4 Volumes) Labberton, R. H. (1884). An historical atlas: A chronological series of one hundred and twelve maps at successive periods. New York. Litwin, H. (2016), Central European Superpower, BUM Magazine, October 2016.
Hellenistic satrapies in ancient India after Alexander. Alexander left behind Greek forces which established themselves in the city of Taxila, now in Pakistan. Several generals, such as Eudemus and Peithon governed the newly established province until around 316 BC. One of them, Sophytes (305–294 BC), was an independent Indian prince in the ...
The Indian satrapies of the Punjab were left to the rule of Porus and Taxiles, who were confirmed again at the Treaty of Triparadisus in 321 BC, and the remaining Greek troops in these satrapies were left under the command of Alexander's general Eudemus. After 321 BC Eudemus toppled Taxiles, until he left India in 316 BC.
The settlement of Greek merchants in Bengal began in the early eighteenth century and lasted until the middle of the twentieth century. [6]The trading house of the Ralli Brothers which operated in Kolkata and Dhaka was the most important Greek business presence in India during the 19th and 20th centuries.
A separate Middle English translation was made between about 1250 and 1300 for the romance King Alisaunder. [9] In addition, the Epistola was twice translated into Old Irish and twice into Old French. There is also an Old Norse version from Iceland and an Italian version known from a fifteenth-century manuscript. [10]
The Greeks in India were eventually divided from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom centered in Bactria (now the border between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan). The expression "Indo-Greek Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities. There were numerous cities, such as Taxila, [6] Pushkalavati and Sagala in Pakistan's Punjab. [7]