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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 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Menander I is the 4,681st most popular politician (down from 3,654th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 34th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Afghan Politician.

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  • 620k

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  • 60.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Menander I has had the most page views in the with 87,702 views, followed by Thai (12,401), and Marathi (5,676). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (120.75%), Finnish (65.19%), and Belarusian (44.35%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Menander I ranks 4,681 out of 19,576. Before him are István Széchenyi, Quintus Hortensius, Ashraf Pahlavi, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Henri, Prince of Condé, and Matthias Gallas. After him are Margareta of Romania, Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, Jovan Vladimir, Al-Rashid of Morocco, Nikolay Bobrikov, and Vologases V.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 190 BC, Menander I ranks 2. Before him is Hipparchus. After him are Lucius Mummius Achaicus, Alexander II Zabinas, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Seleucus of Seleucia, Julia, Phraates I, Hypsicles, and Orodes I of Parthia. Among people deceased in 130 BC, Menander I ranks 1. After 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 40 out of 177. Before him are Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006), and Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954). After him are Ibn al-Rawandi (827), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), and Tahir ibn Husayn (776).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Menander I ranks 29. Before him are Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), and Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954). After him are Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), Tahir ibn Husayn (776), Sher Ali Khan (1825), and Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926).

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