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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Demetrius I of Bactria, Menander I, Hermaeus, Apollodotus I, Agathocles of Bactria, Strato I, Antialcidas, Menander II, Demetrios III, Apollodotus II, Demetrius II of India, Lysias Anicetus, Sophytes, Zoilos II, Heliokles II, Philoxenus Anicetus, Strato II and III, Hippostratos, Agathokleia, Theophilos, Artemidoros, King Nicias, Dionysios Soter, Amyntas Nikator, Apollophanes, Archebius, King Telephos, Diomedes Soter, Pantaleon, Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter, Epander, Theodamas, Peukolaos, Thraso, Euthydemus II. Excerpt: Menander I Soter "The Saviour" (known as Milinda in Indian sources) was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom from either 165 or 155 BC to 130 BC (the first date Osmund Bopearachchi and R C Senior, the other Boperachchi). His territories covered the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria (modern day or Bactria Province) and extended to India (modern day Pakistani provinces of the NWFP, Punjab and parts of Himachal Pradesh and the Jammu region). His capital is supposed to have been Sagala, a prosperous city in northern Punjab (believed to be modern Sialkot), Pakistan. He is one of the few Bactrian kings mentioned by Greek authors, among them Apollodorus of Artemita, quoted by Strabo, who claims that the Greeks from Bactria were even greater conquerors than Alexander the Great, and that Menander was one of the two Bactrian kings, with Demetrius, who extended their power farthest into India: "The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander-- by Menander in particular (at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaus), ...