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Euthydemus I

300 BC - 260 BC

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Euthydemus I (Greek: Εὐθύδημος, Euthýdēmos, c. 260 BC – 200/195 BC) was a Greco-Bactrian king and founder of the Euthydemid dynasty. He is thought to have originally been a satrap of Sogdia, who usurped power from Diodotus II in 224 BC. Literary sources, notably Polybius, record how he and his son Demetrius resisted an invasion by the Seleucid king Antiochus III from 209 to 206 BC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Euthydemus I has received more than 149,982 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Euthydemus I is the 7,385th most popular politician (down from 6,416th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 569th in 2019) and the 227th most popular Turkish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Euthydemus I ranks 7,385 out of 19,576Before him are Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Helena of Nassau, Adolfo López Mateos, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Welf. After him are Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Philip, Elector Palatine, Liu Cong, Stefan Vojislav, Christos Sartzetakis, and Catherine Charlotte de Gramont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 300 BC, Euthydemus I ranks 24Before him are Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Herodas, Berenice, Pharnaces I of Pontus, Laodice III, and Appius Claudius Caudex. After him are Gaius Claudius Nero, Wiman of Gojoseon, Mithridates III of Pontus, Lucius Cincius Alimentus, Prusias II of Bithynia, and Marcus Minucius Rufus. Among people deceased in 260 BC, Euthydemus I ranks 7Before him are Theocritus, Menippus, Sostratus of Cnidus, Zenodotus, Timaeus, and Hanno the Great. After him are Gaius Claudius Nero, Timocharis, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, Marcus Livius Salinator, Quintus Caecilius Metellus, and Philochorus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Euthydemus I ranks 537 out of 1,347Before him are Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889), Xenophon of Ephesus (101), Archelaus of Cappadocia (-50), Philostorgius (368), Akile Hatun (1607), and Macrina the Younger (324). After him are Çiçek Hatun (1431), Leyla Gencer (1928), Beren Saat (1984), Nikos Zachariadis (1903), Pythias (-362), and Hugh III of Cyprus (1235).

Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Euthydemus I ranks 227Before him are Theodora of Trebizond (1253), Anaximenes of Lampsacus (-380), Andronikos Doukas (1006), Theodore II Palaiologos (1396), Hussein Dey (1773), and Archelaus of Cappadocia (-50). After him are Nikos Zachariadis (1903), Pythias (-362), Hugh III of Cyprus (1235), Ahmed Muhtar Pasha (1839), Prusias II of Bithynia (-300), and Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir (1878).