History

Who ruled over Bactria?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/ruled-over-bactria-131067.html" >Who ruled over Bactria?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

In 256 BC, Diodotus I was made satrap, and a little later he assumed complete independence. His successor, Euthydemus, successfully resisted attempts (208-206 BC) to bring Bactria back into the empire. Euthydemus' son Demetrius made Bactria a powerful state. The Seleucid ruler, Antiochus IV, sent Eucratidas into Bactria, and Eucratidas in 167 BC brought about the death of Demetrius but was himself slain in 159 BC Menander, Demetrius' general, continued to exercise power until his death in 145 BC Bactria later (c.130 BC) became part of the Kushan empire. It was subjugated by the Ephthalites in the 5th cent. and partially by the Turks in the 6th cent.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Bactria . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: Who was Bactria's satrap? What people ruled over Bactria? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Iran's 5,000 Years of Recorded History
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs ...C., and at various times over the next 2,000 years they...when it was at its height and ruled the Middle East from present...C. the Medes had settled over a huge area ranging from modern...northeast of Parsa), Chorasmis and Bactria. Then he captured Babylon in...
Fallen Idols.(Afghanistan)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication ...descended from the Yueh-chih people who ruled northern India, Afghanistan, and parts...who shared Afghanistan (then known as Bactria) but in the third century, they were...years, two giant stone Buddhas loomed over the lush Bamiyan Valley. Hewn into sandstone...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.