Sigerdis is a name given by the ancient Greeks to a part of the northwestern

South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth descr ...

. It seems to correspond to the ''Sindhu'', the delta of the Indus river, today's area of Sindh in southern

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

. Referring to the conquests of the Indo-Greeks in the 2nd century BCE, Strabo writes that: :The Greeks... took possession, not only of Patalena, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of

Saraostus Saraostus also called Syrastrene(also ''Surastrene'', modern Saurashtra in India) was the name given by the Greeks to the area of Saurashtra and parts of south-western Gujarat. :"The Greeks ... took possession, not only of Patalena, but also, ...

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 The Phryni ( grc, Φρύνοι) 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. They are mentioned several times in Classical so ...

. (Strabo 11.11.1 ) Regions of Pakistan

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