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Taxiles

400 BC - 360 BC

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Taxiles or Taxilas (Ancient Greek: Tαξίλης, Taxílēs or Ταξίλας, Taxílas lived 4th century BC) was the Greek chroniclers' name for the ruler who reigned over the tract between the Indus and the Jhelum (Hydaspes) Rivers in the Punjab region at the time of Alexander the Great's expedition. His real name was Ambhi (Greek: Omphis), and the Greeks appear to have called him Taxiles or Taxilas, after the name of his capital city of Taxila, near the modern city of Attock, Pakistan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Taxiles is the 12,133rd most popular politician (down from 10,618th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 50th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Taxiles ranks 12,133 out of 19,576. Before him are Huang Fu, Gerald Götting, Turki bin Said, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Mehmet Ali Talat, and Gordon Bajnai. After him are Bartolomeo Gradenigo, Skandagupta, Luigi Pelloux, Emilie of Saxony, Ioannis Rallis, and Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Taxiles ranks 98. Before him are Monimus, Orontes II, Phaenias of Eresus, Sosipatra, Diocles of Carystus, and Deidamia I of Epirus. After him are Meleager, Orontes III, Cephisodotus the Younger, Anniceris, Marsyas of Pella, and Alexander of Lyncestis. Among people deceased in 360 BC, Taxiles ranks 22. Before him are Philitas of Cos, Quintus Hortensius, Antiphilus, Leontion, Laomedon of Mytilene, and Phaenias of Eresus. After him are Anniceris, Marsyas of Pella, Arrhidaeus, Aristides of Thebes, Stasanor, and Cotys I.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Taxiles ranks 67 out of 217. Before him are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Francis Younghusband (1863), Lal Bokhari (1909), Farooq Leghari (1940), Kumail Nanjiani (1978), and Hamida Banu Begum (1527). After him are Tariq Ali (1943), Manoj Kumar (1937), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988), Shyama (1935), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), and Shah Mahmood Qureshi (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Taxiles ranks 31. Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Shujaat Hussain (1946), Yahya Khan (1914), Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), and Farooq Leghari (1940). After him are Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Shah Mahmood Qureshi (1956), L. K. Advani (1927), J. B. Kripalani (1888), and Duleep Singh (1838).

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