Indo-Greeks

The Indo-Greeks was the Inhabitants of the former Greco-Bactrian Kingdom,^[1] and Indo-Greek Kingdom. This are the descendant of Ionia Greek people who married Indian people.^[2] Its believed that some remnants of the Indo-Greeks went from India at the time of the Migration period, to the Byzantine Empire and settled in Phrygia in Asia Minor, and called there Atsingani (Untochables), and became the Ancestors of the Roma people.^[3] The reason was the beginning of the caste system at 400 AD. At the time of the East-West Schism at 1054, they settled in Constantinople and married later Byzantine Greeks.^[4]

Indo-Greeks Media

Pataliputra Palace capital, showing Greek and Persian influence, early Mauryan Empire period, 3rd century BC.
Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription (Greek and Aramaic) by king Ashoka, from Kandahar, Afghanistan.
According to the Mahavamsa, the Great Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30,000-strong "Yona" (Greek) delegation from "Alexandria" around 130 BC.
Greco-Bactrian statue of an old man or philosopher, Ai Khanoum, Bactria, 2nd century BC
Corinthian capital, found at Ai-Khanoum, 2nd century BC
Coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus 230–200 BC. The Greek inscription reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΥΘΥΔΗΜΟΥ – "(of) King Euthydemus".
Greco-Bactria and the city of Ai-Khanoum were located at the very doorstep of Mauryan India.
The Khalsi rock edict of Ashoka, which mentions the Greek kings Antiochus, Ptolemy, Antigonus, Magas and Alexander by name, as recipients of his teachings.