Talk:Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

message: According to most maps and Greek historical accounts, Greeks only conquered Afghanistan and the regions which now consitute modern day Pakistan.  indo-greeks referred to the intermarriage of Greeks with the inhabitants of the Indus valley basin which is also exclusively located in Pakistan.  To infer that the Greeks ruled over northern india is an innaccurate statement.  Please correct this fact.  Cheers   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.63.220.229 (talk) 17:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Greek and Indo-Greek Empire extended eastward only to Afghanistan/Pakistan

message: I want to say I love this article, its really interesting! I always wondered what happened in that part of the world after Alexander...who knew that the Greek settlers were setting up their own little kingdom, and contacting China!? 
Once again a fascinating article. Well done! PJB 13:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great stuff! 

message: I recall to have read passages suggesting that Bactria was much stronger than the Parthian kingdom, is this acceptable or is that pov? Mallerd 11:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parthia vs Bactria 

message: I created this topic because I am personally concerned that more and more people are using the BCE/CE abbreviations to denote dates rather than the time-honored BC/AD abbreviations. I am concerned because I believe that it is a POV bias against Christians. One could argue that perhaps I am biased against non-Christians or secularists because I wish to continue using abbreviations which have a specific religious connotation to them. In my defense, that is not the reason why I am bringing this to light. Rather, I am doing it for two reasons, they are:
1) To continue what history has given us for posterity's sake, and
2) To keep a uniform system of referencing in Wikipedia for article tidiness
For now, I will not edit any articles with BCE/CE in them until or if I get a general feel of consensus by Wikipedia users.
Discuss - USMarinesTanker 1055, 20071221 (MST)
If more people are using BCE/CE, like you yourself just said, then whats the big deal? Most people aren't going to be comfortable with "Before Christ" & "In the Year of (Our) Lord", the same way you wouldn't be comfortable with the Islamic calendar or the Buddhist calendar. ʄ!•¿talk? 19:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article originally used BC/AD notation. Then about four years ago we had this edit  where User:PHG took it upon himself to change to CE/BCE. Note his edit summary "some more info". Recently I've been looking into this issue and it seems that there's a concerted effort to sneak in BC --> BCE changes right across the project. Wikipedia policy is to defer to the choice of the editor making the first major edit, and not to change the format without broad consensus. I see no broad consensus here, and even though the edit was made a long time ago, given the issue has been raised here again, I believe the original usage should now be restored. If it is not, then it gives carte blanche to those who wish to eliminate BC/AD usage from Wikipedia. See also the discussion at Talk:Kabul for a similar instance. 82.20.19.200 (talk) 12:05, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Hi PHG, Yes I noticed you created the article, but I don't see the relevance of that fact. Here's the article immediately prior to the BC --> BCE changes . It's not a stub, and it looks pretty stable to me. I won't change this article, but I would ask you, and others of a similar persuasion, not to make BC --> BCE (or indeed BCE --> BC) changes, just to satisfy your personal POV. Incidentally, half of this problem can easily be solved. Years from 1 don't need any annotation, AD or CE. Would you support the removal of CE notation from this article on that basis? 82.20.19.200 (talk) 15:40, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC/AD usage versus BCE/CE usage in dates 

message: I've recently finished a draft map of "Greco-Bactria & the Indo-Greeks in 150 BC", which can be viewed (for now) at www.WorldHistoryMaps.info. It shows Greco-Bactria near the end of Eucratides' reign, and shows the Indo-Greeks in the early years of Menander's reign.
I think the only real "down-side" of the map is that it doesn't quite show either Empire at its actual greatest extent. For example, this was about 17 years after Mithridates I of Parthia took Herat and Merv from Greco-Bactria. Also, Menander was only a few years into his reign and hadn't yet begun his campaigns against the Sungas. Nevertheless, I believe the map will serve this article well because it depicts both the Greco-Bactrians and the Indo Greeks at a key point in their existence - shortly before Bactria was overrun by the Tochari (Yuezhi).
Anyway, please review the map of "Greco-Bactria & the Indo-Greeks in 150 BC", and let me know if it's acceptable for this article, etc. Thank you in advance, Thomas Lessman (talk) 00:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As usual, a fine map. This is however hardly a map over Eucratides' kingdom; he probably did not rule in Sogdiana (at least not all of it), and his Indian dominions are somewhat uncertain as well. There is no known greatest extent, as Sogdiana was probably lost in the 3rd century, while the "Indian" territories were added sometimes after 200 BCE, but soon become independent, and partially reconquered once more by Eucratides. Sponsianus (talk) 21:50, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Map of Greco-Bactria in 150 BC

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message: This article should be entitled "Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom", for consistency with "Achaemenid", "Plataea" &c in the text.  Deipnosophista (talk) 09:23, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: spelling