Diodotid dynasty

Diodotid dynasty
Diodotid dynasty
	Coin of Eucratides the Great with the Dioscuri, along with Thundering Zeus, serving as the symbols of the Diodotids.
Country	Afghanistan
Founded	305 BC (Principal Satrapy); 255 BC (Kingdom)
Founder	Diodotus I
Final ruler	Heliocles II
Titles	Basileus of Bactria; King of Arachosia; King of Taxila; Shahanshah;
Dissolution	c. 100 BC

The Diodotid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty founded by Seleucid viceroy Diodotus I Soter in 255 BC, ruling the far-eastern Kingdom of Bactria. The dynasty reached its zenith under Eucratides I the Great, who conquered large parts of modern day Pakistan and Northern India.

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