The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.22

c15.22

⁴ Yule, *Marco Polo*, 2nd ed. 1874, vol. I p. 169 (p. 160 in the 3rd ed.), ‘probably due to a genuine memory of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom’. He did not consider the claim to Greek ancestry real. Recently given by W. P. Yetts, *Eurasia Septentrionalis antiqua* IX, 1934, p. 234, ‘an outcome of the Greek conquest of this region and the establishment of hellenised states’.