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| | Articles - Yuezhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Around 177 BCE, the Xiongnu, led by one of Maodun's tribal chiefs, invaded the Yuezhi territory in the Gansu region, leading them to a crushing defeat. |
 | | Some time after 126 BCE the Yuezhi, possibly disturbed by further incursions of rivals from the north, moved south to Bactria, that had been conquered by the Greeks under Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, and since settled by the Greek dynasties of the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians for two centuries. |
 | | As they settled in Bactria from around 125 BCE, the Yuezhi became Hellenized to some degree, as suggested by their adoption of the Greek alphabet and by some remaining coins, minted in the style of the Greco-Bactrian kings, with the text in Greek. |
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