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Menander I

190 BC - 130 BC

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Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Σωτήρ, romanized: Ménandros Sōtḗr, lit. 'Menander the Saviour'; Pali: Milinda; sometimes called Menander the Great) was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165/155 –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia. Menander is noted for having become a patron and convert to Greco-Buddhism and he is widely regarded as the greatest of the Indo-Greek kings.Menander might have initially been a king of Bactria. After conquering the Punjab, as far as Taxila, he established an empire which stretched from the Kabul River in the west to the Indus River in the east, and from the Swat River valley in the north to Arachosia (the Helmand Province). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Menander I has received more than 621,983 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Menander I is the 3,664th most popular politician (up from 4,454th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 35th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Menander I ranks 3,664 out of 15,577Before him are Şah Sultan, Musa Çelebi, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Ziusudra, Ghazi of Iraq, and Emil Jellinek. After him are Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Bayinnaung, James Brooke, Agnes of France, Byzantine Empress, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, and Al-Wathiq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 190 BC, Menander I ranks 2Before him is Hipparchus. After him are Lucius Mummius Achaicus, Seleucus of Seleucia, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Alexander II Zabinas, Julia, Phraates I, Orodes I of Parthia, and Hypsicles. Among people deceased in 130 BC, Menander I ranks 1After him are Pacuvius, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, and Ptolemaeus of Commagene.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Menander I ranks 34 out of 145Before him are Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), Ashraf Ghani (1949), Nur Jahan (1577), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), and Khaled Hosseini (1965). After him are Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Abu Maʿshar (787), Khalil Sultan (1384), Inayatullah Khan (1888), and Muhammad of Ghor (1160).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Menander I ranks 26Before him are Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Ashraf Ghani (1949), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), and Moinuddin Chishti (1142). After him are Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Khalil Sultan (1384), Inayatullah Khan (1888), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), and Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998).