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# The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.22

The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.22

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### [c15.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.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’.

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