Archebios (90 - 80 BC) (with western Punjab) Coins. Menander II Dikaios "The Just" (90 - 85 BCE) Coins. Territory of Arachosia and Gandhara (95-70 BCE) The eastern kings regained their territory as far west as Arachosia.ĭuring the 1st century BC, the Indo-Greeks progressively lost ground against the invasion of the Indo-Scythians, until the last king Strato II ended his ruled in Eastern Punjab around 10 CE. The Western king Philoxenus briefly occupied the whole remaining Greek territory from the Paropamisadae to Western Punjab between 100 and 95 BC, after what the territories fragmented again. 100 BC - possibly in Gandhara)Īfter around 100 BCE, Indian kings recovered the area of Mathura and Eastern Punjab east of the Ravi River, and started to mint their own coins. The following minor kings who ruled parts of the kingdom: Strato I (125 - 110 BC) Coin, son of Menander and Agathokleia. Territory from Gandhara/Western Punjab to Mathura (125 - 100 BC) Some years later the Eastern kings probably had to retreat even further, to Western Punjab. 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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