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 and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;; ...

. It seems to correspond to the ''Sindhu'', the delta of the

Indus The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kash ...

river, today's area of

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

in southern

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. Referring to the conquests of the Indo-Greeks in the 2nd century BCE, Strabo writes that: :The Greeks... took possession, not only of

Patalena Patalene was an ancient area of Indian subcontinent, now in modern Pakistan, that corresponds to the area of Sind. The Indo-Greeks are mentioned in ancient sources as having occupied the areas of the Patalene (Sindh) and Gujarat, including the ...

, 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, o ...

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 ) Regions of Pakistan

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