The Aristophyli were a tribe of the district of Paropamisus,Thomas Swinburne Carr, The classical pronunciation of proper names, established by citations from the Greek and Latin poets, Greek historians, geographers and scholiasts, and including a terminal synopsis of analogy, etymology & c. With an appendix of Scripture proper names carefully accented" (London, 1842). in Bactria.Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus (J. Murray, 1873) p 553.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58-59. near the Karakorum Ranges during the Classical era.Johann Heinrich Heidegger, De historia sacra patriarcharum, Volume 1 (Johann Heinrich Heidegger, 1688). page 553.Philippus CLUVERIUS, Introductionis in universam geographiam (Leonard Lichfield, 1657) page 26.
History During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires the Arstophyli lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai.Vincent Arthur Smith, Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India (Asian Educational Services, 1997) page 11.
They are mentioned in Claudius PtolemaeusClaudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia:gewidmet Kardinal Aloysius Cornelius, Volume 0 (Vincentius Valgrisius, 1562) page 236, and appear on a mapClaudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia:gewidmet Kardinal Aloysius Cornelius, Volume 0 (Vincentius Valgrisius, 1562) page map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. Biography of Chandragupta Maurya: Ancestry, Early Life and His Conquest.
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa.N. N. Ghosh, DO THE REFERENCES TO THE YAVANA INVASION OF INDIA FOUND IN THE YUGAPURANA, PATANJALI MAHABHASHYA AND THE MALAVIKAGNIMITRA FORM THE EVIDENCE OF ONE SINGLE EVENT? Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 9 (1946), pp. 93-103. until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.
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