Sigerdis is a name given by the ancient Greeks to a part of the northwestern India subcontinent. It seems to correspond to the Sindhu desh, the delta of the Indus river, today's area of Sindh in southern Pakistan. The Indus is a river; the Indus River. ... Sindh (Sind) سندھ is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and is home to the Sindhis and various other groups. ...
Refering to the conquests of the Indo-Greeks in the 2nd century BCE, Strabo writes that: Strabo (squinty) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. ...
"The Greeks... took possession, not only of Patalena, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of Saraostus and Sigerdis. In short, Apollodorus says that Bactriana is the ornament of Ariana as a whole; and, more than that, they extended their empire even as far as the Seres and the Phryni." (Strabo 11.11.1 [1])
Sindh (Sind) سندھ is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and is home to the Sindhis and various other groups. ... Saraostus (also Saurashtra in Indian) was the name given by the Greeks to the area of Surat, the southeastern part of todays Indian state of Gujarat, bordering the city of Bombay. ... Seres (ΣηÏες) was the ancient Greek and Roman name for the northwestern part of China and its inhabitants. ... The Phryni were an ancient people of eastern Central Asia, probably located in the eastern part of the Tarim Basin, in an area connected to that of the Seres and the Tocharians. ...
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