Euthymedia or Euthydemia ( el, Ευθυμεδεία) was the ancient city of

Sagala Sagala, Sakala ( sa, साकला), or Sangala ( grc, Σάγγαλα) was a city in ancient India, which was the predecessor of the modern city of Sialkot that is located in what is now Pakistan's northern Punjab province. The city was the ...

belonging to the Bactrian Dynasty, now located in modern-day

Sialkot Sialkot ( ur, ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of Sialkot District and the 13th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined with Jammu (the winter capital of Indian administered Jammu and Ka ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. The British classical scholar

William Woodthorpe Tarn Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn (26 February 1869 – 7 November 1957) was a British classics, classical scholar and a writer. He wrote extensively on the Hellenistic world, particularly on Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great's empire and its su ...

, suggested that "Euthydemia" was never assigned as a new name for ancient Sagala, and that the name was actually Euthymedeia. The altered name was suggested to have been a 1738 alteration made by historian T Beyer. The city was mentioned by

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importanc ...

in his 1st century BCE work, ''Geography''. In the 2nd century BCE, Euthydemia also known as

, was made the capital of the Indo-Greek kingdom by the buddhist King Milinda, as recorded in the Buddhist text ''

Milinda Panha The ''Milinda Pañha'' () is a Buddhist text which dates from sometime between 100 BC and 200 AD. It purports to record a dialogue between the Indian Buddhist sage Nāgasena, and the 2nd century BC Indo-Greek king Menander I (Pali: ''Milinda'') ...

''.

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