Eucratidia was a Greek town in Bactria, one of the easternmost area ever controlled by the Greeks, located at the modern site of Aï Khanum in North-Eastern Afghanistan. The history of this city is still rather unknown, but it seems that, it was first built by Alexander the Great or one of his early Seleucid successors in the last decades of the 4th century BC, under its the name Oskobara.
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293 BCEAntiochos is appointed vice-king of the Upper-Satrapies by his father Seleucus I Nicator.
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250 BCEFormer satrap Diodotos rebels against Seleucid king Antiochos I, creating the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
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c. 171 BCEEucratides begins his uprising against Greco-Bactrian king Demetrios II.
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c. 145 BCEEucratidia is taken by the Sakas.
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c. 139 BCEEucratidia is looted to the ground by the Yuezhei.
