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Rulers of Afghanistan (1500 BC to 20 BC)

1500 – 535 BC (circa) - Gandhara Kingdom Gandhāra was an Ancient Indian kingdom mentioned in the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. Shakuni was the prince of Gandhara. He was the root of all the conspiracies of Duryodhana against the Pandavas. Finally, it was the Kurukshetra War.  One of the sister of Shakuni is the wife of the Kuru king Dhritarashtra. It was known as Gandhari and later the area of Gandhāra which is in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan. 1200 – 299 BC (circa) - Kamboja Kingdom Territories were located beyond Gandhara in present-day eastern Afghanistan. In the third century BCE where Buddha statues were built during the reign of Ashoka.   Median Kingdom There have been different opinions about the extent of the Median kingdom. According to Ernst Herzfeld, it was a powerful empire, which stretched from central Anatolia to Bactria. nowadays India to around the borders of it. One side, Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg insists that. It is no valid evidence about the very existence of the Median empire.   Nevertheless, the region of Afghanistan came under Median rule for a small time. Achaemenid Empire Achaemenid Empire ruled Afghanistan after it was conquered by Darius I of Persia. It was divided into several provinces called satrapies. which were governed by a governor, or satrap. These ancient satrapies included: Aria: In the east side: The region of Aria was separated by mountain ranges from the Paropamisadae. In the west side: Parthia. In the north side: Margiana and Hyrcania. In the south side: A desert separated it from Carmania and Drangiana. The Herat Province of today's Afghanistan. Arachosia, corresponds to the modern-day Kandahar, Quetta, and Lashkar Gah. In the west side: Arachosia bordered Drangiana. In the north and to the east side: Paropamisadae (i.e. Gandahara) In the south side: Gedrosia. Arachosians/Arachoti The peoples of Arachosia were Iranian. It is supposed that they were called Paktyans and now refers to the Pashtun. The Sulaiman Mountains up to the Indus River in the basin around Bannu. Ghazni and Gandhara which corresponds to nowaday Kabul, Peshawar, and Jalalabad. 321-330 BC (circa)- Alexander III  Alexander The Great Alexander the Great comes in Afghanistan in c. 330 BCE. A year before at the Battle of Gaugamela he is defeating Darius III of Persia. He said that Afghanistan is...   "Easy to march into, hard to march out of." Although his expedition through Afghanistan was brief, Alexander left behind a Hellenic cultural influence that lasted several centuries. Some cities were built in the named "Alexandria," it included: Alexandria-on-the-Tarnak near Kandahar Alexandria-of-the-Arians modern-day Herat Alexandria-Eschate near Kojend Alexandria-ad-Caucasum near Begram, at Bordj-i-Abdullah 321 BC (circa) - Chandragupta Maurya, Mauryan Empire Chandragupta Maurya - The territory fell to the Maurya Empire. 250 BC – 565 CE (circa) - Classical Period The satrap of Bactria and probably the surrounding provinces seceded from the Seleucid Empire around 250 BCE. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom, founded when Diodotus I the satrap. 165 - 130 BC (circa) - Indo-Greek Kingdom, Kings Strato II and King Strato III Menander I successors of Demetrius I's. brought the Indo-Greek Kingdom. Between 165 and 130 BCE, expanding the kingdom in Afghanistan and Pakistan to even larger proportions than Demetrius. After the death of Menander, the Indo-Greeks declined the last Indo-Greek kings (Strato II and Strato III) in c. 10 CE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom was succeeded by the Indo-Scythians. 130 BC (circa) - Greco-Bactria Kingdom The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was along with the Indo-Greek Kingdom the easternmost part of the Hellenistic world, in Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent from its founding in 256 BC by Diodotus I Soter to its fall c.100 BC under the reign of Heliocles II/III. 100 BC (circa) - Indo-Scythians The Indo-Scythians were descended from the Sakas/Scythians who migrated from southern Siberia to Pakistan and Arachosia from the middle of the second century BCE to the first century BCE. They displaced the Indo-Greeks and ruled a kingdom that stretched from Mathura to Gandhara. 90–70 BC (circa) - Hermaeus One of the Western Indo-Greek king is Hermaeus Soter or Hermaios Soter was in the Eucratid Dynasty. He ruled the territory of Paropamisade in the Hindu-Kush region, with his capital in Alexandria of the Caucasus near today's Kabul, Afghanistan. 60–20 BC (circa) - Azes, Indo-Scythian Ruler the Sakas/Scythians who migrated from southern Siberia to Pakistan and Arachosia.  The Indo-Scythians were descended by him at the middle of the second century BCE to the first century BCE. They displaced the Indo-Greeks and ruled a kingdom that stretched from Gandhara to Mathura. #Afghanistan #Rulers #History #TimeToTime #T3