The Greeks in Bactria and India c11.3

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¹ A. J. Toynbee, *A Study of History* II (2nd ed. 1935) pp. 112-208, ‘The Stimulus of Pressures’. A march state was a state on the boundary of the community to which by race and culture it belonged, and as such acted as the shield of the interior against pressure from some alien community, in the case of Bactria the northern nomads. The classical instance is Brandenburg as the Teutonic outpost against the Slavs.