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+'''Chandragupta Maurya's Greek satrapies campaigns''' were a series of military campaigns by led by [[Chandragupta Maurya]] who conquered the [[satrapies]] from the [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Greeks of Macedonia]] in the Indus Valley and Northwest-India.<ref name="greenwood">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JEvN6XwWTk8C&pg=PA252|title=From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500|date=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing|isbn=0313309426|access-date=16 August 2019}}</ref><ref>K.M. Munishi, Pg 15-16 : Chandragupta drove out the Greeks from the Punjab in a brilliant war of liberation. The successful war against the Greeks awoke Chandragupta (c.324-300 B.C.) to a consciousness of his strength. ... Consolidating his position in the Punjab, and inspired by his teacher Chanakya, Chandragupta marched on Pataliputra; killed Dhana Nanda, assumed the sovereignty of Magadha; vanquished Seleucus, the Greek, who was moving towards India to recapture Alexander’s lost possessions; and started on a career of becoming the architect of an all-India empire.[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.526980/page/n15/mode/1up]</ref>
+{{Infobox military conflict
+| conflict    = Chandragupta Maurya's Macedonian campaigns
+| partof      =
+| image       = File:EasternSatrapsAfterAlexander.jpg|thumb
+|caption=Chandragupta Maurya had defeated the remaining [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonian]] [[satrap]]ies in the northwest of the [[Indian subcontinent]] by 317 BCE.<ref>{{cite book |title=World History, Volume I |publisher= The Pennsylvania State University|page=45|isbn =978-0-495-56902-2|url=https://archive.org/details/world-history-volume-i/page/45/mode/1up |access-date=21 February 2025 |quote=The founder of the new state, who took the royal title Chandragupta Maurya (324-301 В.С.Е.), drove out the Greek administrators whom Alexander had left behind and solidified his control over the northern Indian plain.}}</ref>
+| date        = between 323 BCE and 316 BCE
+| place       = [[Northwest India]] and Indus Valley
+| result      = [[Mauryan Empire|Mauryan]] victory<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofin00dani/mode/2up|title=A brief history of India|last=Alain Daniélou|date=2003|publisher=Inner Traditions|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-89281-923-2|pages=85-86|quote=In the Swat, Nicanor was killed. Philip, who was guarding Taxila with Ambhi, replaced Nicanor as satrap of Gandhara, but was himself assassinated in 325 B.C.E. ....... Chandragupta began attacking the Greek principalities. The Brahmans fomented revolts against the unclean foreigners. Peithon withdrew to Arachosia (Kandahar) in 316. After treacherously killing an Indian prince probably Ambhi. Eudemus left India with one hundred and twenty elephants to join Eumenes army. He was beaten and put to death with Eumenes by Antigonus, king of Babylon. It took no great effort for Chandragupta to annex the Greek kingdoms, which had prepared the terrain for him. Due to their “barbarian” customs and impiety, the Greeks had aroused profound hostility among the Indian masses and the priests. Only the Greek kingdoms beyond the Khyber Pass survived.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/alexander-the-great-the-rise-of-macedonia-359-323-bc.-pdfdrive/page/105/mode/1up|title=ALEXANDER THE GREAT THE RISE OF MACEDONIA 359-323 BC.|year=2003|pages=105|quote=The local Macedonian governors, Nicanor and Philippos, were assassinated. An obscure rebel named Chandragupta Maurya (Sandrocottus according to Greek historians), rose to power.}}</ref>
+| territory   = * [[Chandragupta Maurya]] conquered the satrapies in Macedonian Northwest India<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/firstgreatpoliti0000roge/mode/2up|title=The First Great Political Realist: Kautilya and His Arthashastra|last=Roger Boesche|date=2003|publisher=Lexington Books|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-7391-0607-5|pages=10|quote=By about 321 B.C.E., Chandragupta had taken the Punjab and Sindh from the Greeks, and by about 305 B.C.E., he had forced Alexander’s successor in that area, Seleucus, into a humiliating treaty in which Seleucus married his daughter to Chandragupta.}}</ref>
+* [[Chandragupta Maurya]] conquered the satrapies in Macedonian Indus Valley<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bhic131/page/n319/mode/1up|title=History of India from the Earliest Times upto 300 C.E.|year=2019|isbn=978-93-89499-83-4|publication-place=Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi|pages=320|language=English|quote=Chandragupta was quick to realize the importance of erecting a huge empire. He went about to unite the whole of Punjab and, later, the northern India after overthrowing the Nandas. He not only added the southern states but also integrated the four satrapies of Aria, Arachosia, Gedrosia and Paropamisadae which were ceded by Seleucus to Chandragupta after the demise of Alexander.}}</ref>
+| combatant1  = [[Mauryan Empire]]
+| combatant2  = [[Macedonian Empire]]
+| commander1  = [[Chandragupta Maurya]]<br/> Hired [[mercenaries]]
+| commander2  = Nicanor<br/>Philip
+| casualties1 = unknown
+| casualties2 = Remaining Greek governors executed
+}}