page_title: Azes II
hierarchical_section_title: Azes II
caption_attribution_description: Coin of Azes II
context_page_description: Azes II, may have been the last Indo-Scythian king in northern Indian subcontinent. His existence has been questioned — would he not have existed, artefacts attributed to his reign, such as coins, would likely be those Azes I.
  After the death of Azes II, the rule of the Indo-Scythians in northwestern India and Pakistan finally crumbled with the conquest of the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who had lived in Bactria for more than a century, and who were then expanding into India to create a Kushan Empire. Soon after, the Parthians invaded from the west. Their leader Gondophares temporarily displaced the Kushans and founded the Indo-Parthian Kingdom that was to last until the middle of the 1st century CE. The Kushans ultimately regained northwestern India circa 75 CE, where they were to prosper for several centuries.
context_section_description: Azes II (reigned circa 35–12 BCE), may have been the last Indo-Scythian king in northern Indian subcontinent (modern day Pakistan). His existence has been questioned — would he not have existed, artefacts attributed to his reign, such as coins, would likely be those Azes I.
  After the death of Azes II, the rule of the Indo-Scythians in northwestern India and Pakistan finally crumbled with the conquest of the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who had lived in Bactria for more than a century, and who were then expanding into India to create a Kushan Empire. Soon after, the Parthians invaded from the west. Their leader Gondophares temporarily displaced the Kushans and founded the Indo-Parthian Kingdom that was to last until the middle of the 1st century CE. The Kushans ultimately regained northwestern India circa 75 CE, where they were to prosper for several centuries.
caption: Azes II in armour, riding a horse, on one of his silver tetradrachms, minted in Gandhara
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