Editing Peshawar (section)

==== Greek rule ====
In the winter of 327–26 BCE, [[Alexander the Great]] subdued the Valley of Peshawar during his [[Indian campaign of Alexander the Great|invasion of the Indus Valley]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fuller |first1=J.F.C. |title=The Generalship Of Alexander The Great |date=2004 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-81330-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDy97Y6lZGUC&q=peshawar&pg=PA71 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> as well as the nearby [[Swat (Pakistan)|Swat]] and [[Buner Valley|Buner]] valleys.<ref>{{cite book |last=Luniya |first=Bhanwarlal Nathuram |title=Life and Culture in Ancient India: From the Earliest Times to 1000 AD |year=1978 |publisher=Lakshmi Narain Agarwal |lccn=78907043}}</ref> Following Alexander's conquest, the Valley of Peshawar came under the suzerainty of [[Seleucus I Nicator]], founder of the [[Seleucid Empire]]. A locally-made vase fragment that was found in Peshawar depicts a scene from [[Sophocles]]' play ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tarn |first1=William Woodthorpe |title=The Greeks in Bactria and India |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-00941-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HeJS3nE9cAC&q=purushapura+bactria |access-date=28 March 2017 |archive-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414155821/https://books.google.com/books?id=-HeJS3nE9cAC&q=purushapura+bactria |url-status=live }}</ref>