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	Yuezhi - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Yuezhi sometimes practiced the exchange of hostages with the Xiongnu, and at one time were hosts to Maodun, the son of the Xiongnu leader.
		The Yuezhi crossed the neighbouring urban civilization of the Ta-Yuan in Ferghana, and settled on the northern bank of the Oxus, in the region of Transoxonia, in modern-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, just north of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
		The Yuezhi were visited by a Chinese mission, led by Zhang Qian in 126 BCE, that was seeking an offensive alliance with the Yuezhi to counter the Xiongnu threat to the north.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yuezhi (2368 words)

	Yuezhi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Yuezhi are also documented in detail in Chinese historical accounts, in particular the 2nd-1st century BCE "Records of the Great Historian", or Shiji, by Sima Qian.
		A very small group of Yuezhi fled south to the territory of the Proto-Tibetan Qiang, and came to be known to the Chinese as the "Small Yuezhi".
		The Yuezhi crossed the neighbouring urban civilization of the Dayuan in Ferghana, and settled on the northern bank of the Oxus, in the region of Transoxiana, in modern-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, just north of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Yuezhi (3178 words)

	Wikipedia: Yuezhi
		Yuezhi (simplified and traditional Chinese月氏;; wg: Yueh-Chih) are transliterations of the Chinese name for the Saka or Sacae or Sakya Huns of which Sidarta Guatema The Buddha came from.
		First mention in Chinese records of such a nation is the late 6th century BC during the Chow dynasty when the learned coutier Li-Yi went west out of San-Ku-Kwan to preach to the Huns.
		According to Chinese records, the Yuezhi Saca were a confederacy of (traditionally) 5 tribes which moved west out of Gansu province of China and eventually settled in Afghanistan where they founded the Kushan empire.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/y/yu/yuezhi.html (268 words)

	Europa Barbarorum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This may indicate the extent of the Yuezhi at this time and their domination over some of the oasis kingdoms of the Tarim, as Sima Qian clearly noted the strength and influence of the Yuezhi before the rise of the mighty Maodun Chanyu of the Xiongnu during the late 3rd century BC.
		A small group of the Yuezhi who were unable to migrate with the rest of their kinsmen fortified themselves at the southern mountains (the mountains south of Gansu) and sought refuge with the Qiang (probably a proto-Tibetan people) tribes living around the area.
		From then on, the majority of the Yuezhi who migrated out of their homelands were known in the Chinese histories as the Da Yuezhi (Greater Yuezhi) while the the minority of the Yuezhi who sought refuge with the Qiang were known as the Xiao Yuezhi (Lesser Yuezhi).
	www.europabarbarorum.com /factions_yuezhi_history.html (4717 words)

	The Yue-zhi - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Following a defeat in 162 BCE by the Xiongnu (Huns), the Yuezhi fled from the Tarim Basin and migrated to the Ili Valley in modern-day Kazakhstan.
		The Yuezhi then fled to the region of Bactria in modern-day Afghanistan, which had been conquered first by the Greeks under Alexander the Great in 330 BC, and had then been settled by the Greek dynasties of the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians for the two centuries ever since.
		As they settled in Bactria, 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.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=19640 (797 words)

	Imperial Gurjars
		As early as the mid-first millennium BCE the Yuezhi engaged in the jade trade, of which the major consumers were the rulers of agricultural China.
		Yuezhi was the name used continuously by ancient Chinese historians to designate the tribe throughout its migrations, from the time it was in the eastern Tarim Basin/ Gansu area (7th to 2nd century BCE) to the time it ruled the Kushan Empire in India (1st-3th century CE).
		The Yuezhi crossed the neighbouring urban civilization of the Ta-Yuan in Ferghana, and settled on the northern bank of the Oxus, in the region of Transoxiana, in modern-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, just north of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
	www.gurjarindia.com /History/Yuezhi.html (2596 words)

	Yuezhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yuezhi crossed the neighbouring urban civilization of the Dayuan in Ferghana, and settled on the northern bank of the Oxus, in the region of Transoxiana, in modern-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, just north of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
		In 124 BCE the Yuezhi were apparently involved in a war against the Parthians, in which the Parthian king Artabanus I of Parthia was wounded and died:
		The Yuezhi/ Kushans expanded to the east during the 1st century AD, to found the Kushan Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yueh-Chih (3108 words)

	ooBdoo
		After obtaining the help of the king of Dayuan, Zhang Qian went southwest to the territory of the Yuezhi, with whom he was supposed to obtain a military alliance against the Xiongnu.
		A smaller group of Yuezhi, the "Little Yuezhi" were not able to follow the exodus and reportedly found refuge among the "Qiang barbarians" (Tibetans).
		Zhang Qian probably witnessed the last period of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, as it was being subjugated by the nomad Yuezhi.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Zhang_Qian (2170 words)

	Silk Road - Introduction
		The general Zhang Qian was sent by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty (206 BC- AD 220) to recruit the Yuezhi, who were the enemies of the Xiongnu in the second century BC.
		As Yuezhi tribe, Xiongnu was also a nomadic group who attempted to invade the Kansu province of Han Dynasty.
		Yuezhi was living in peace and well settled in the various oases of Central Asia and no longer interested in taking their revenge on the Xiongnu.
	gallery.sjsu.edu /silkroad/history.htm (717 words)

	School of Communication :: Simon Fraser University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yuezhi Zhao, “Transnational Capital, the Chinese State, and China’s Communication Industries in a Fractured Society,” The Public/Javnost: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, 10:4 (2003), pp.
		Yuezhi Zhao, “Media and Elusive Democracy in China,” The Public/Javnost: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, 8:2 (June 2001), pp.
		Yuezhi Zhao, "From Commercialization to Conglomeration: The Transformation of the Chinese Press within the Orbit of the Party State," Journal of Communication, 50:2 (Spring 2000), pp.
	www.sfu.ca /communication/people/faculty/zhao_y.html (851 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Agre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tocharian people were settled in between the areas of Sakas and Rishikas (Yuezhi) in the north of Tarim River and 'Tianshan' hills.
		Following the settlement of the Yuezhi (described in the West as "Tocharians"), the general area of Bactria came to be called Tokharistan.
		From the first century to the third century, Tokharistan was under the rule of the Kushans.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Agre (616 words)

	Yuezhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Chinese mission of [[Zhang Qian to the Yuezhi in 126 BCE, Mogao Caves, 618-712 CE mural painting.]] The Yuezhi were visited by a Chinese mission, led by Zhang Qian in 126 BCE, which was seeking an offensive alliance with the Yuezhi to counter the Xiongnu threat to the north.
		Kharoshti legend: MAHARAJASA TRATARASA HERAYAMASA "Saviour King Hermaeus".]] The area of the Hindu-Kush (Paropamisadae) was ruled by the western Indo-Greek king until the reign of Hermaeus (reigned c.
		Qunduz mint, in Afghanistan.]] The first documented Yuezhi prince, Sapadbizes, ruled around 20 BCE, and minted in Greek and in the same style as the western Indo-Greek kings.
	yuezhi.area51.ipupdater.com (1841 words)

	Yuezhi Chinese Chinese #26376 #27663 Wade Giles Wade Giles Y...
		Following a defeat in 162 BC 162 BCE by the Xiongnu Xiongnu (Huns Huns), the Yuezhi migrated from what is now Gansu Gansu and Xinjiang Xinjiang to the Ili Valley Ili Valley in modern-day Kazakhstan Kazakhstan.
		The Yuezhi then fled to the region of Bactria Bactria in modern-day Afghanistan Afghanistan, which had been conquered first by Greeks Greeks under Alexander the Great Alexander the Great and then by Pashtun Pashtuns.
		Over the next century, the Yuezhi gradually established control over the area, founding the Kushan Kushan Empire, which was to rule the region for several centuries.
	www.biodatabase.de /Yuezhi (261 words)

	Yuezhi - Chinese ethnics - China
		According to Han accounts, the Yuezhi "were flourishing" during the time of the first great Chinese Qin Shi HuangQin emperor, but were regularly in conflict with the neighbouring tribe of the Xiongnu to the northeast.
		In recognition for their support to the Chinese, the Yuezhi requested, but were denied, a Han ChineseHan princess, even after they had sent presents to the Chinese court.
		Benefiting from this territorial expansion, the Yuezhi/ Kushans were among the first to introduce Buddhism to northern and northeastern Asia, by direct missionary efforts and the translation of BuddhismBuddhist scriptures into Chinese.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Yuezhi (1728 words)

	Warring King Treasures\|War King Mao Dun\|THE JADE ROAD LTD
		His father fearing a rival to his elder sons right to the throne had given the young Maodun to the Yuezhi tribe as a political slave hostage and insurance policy of mutual respect for their lands.
		After years of slavery to the court of the Yuezhi he attempted a daring escape by Killing the tribal chief and taking his finest horse and weapon.
		The second purpose was to seek revenge against the Yuezhi who had held him in bondage and the third was to control the Silk Road.
	www.thejaderoad.com /warking.html (1069 words)

	huns han dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wang Guowei speculated that Yuezhi people, after their defeat in the hands of Huns, fled to Bactria to found a similar 'xia' kingdom and that even the later 'Tu-huo-luo' kingdom of Afghanistan could be a mutation of the ancient pronunciation for 'da xia'.
		The son of Yueh-chih (Yuezhi) was ordered to stay behind in Gansu Province and they were referred to as the Yueh-chih (Yuezhi) Minor [Lesser Yüeh-chih] and survived in Western China for hundreds of years.
		After that, the Huns attacked the west and forced the Yueh-chih (Yuezhi) to the Oxus Valley where their descendants refused to forge an alliance with Zhang Qian the Han Chinese emissary in fighting the Huns.
	www.findthelinks.com /history/Huns_Turks/han_dynasty.htm (6269 words)

	► » Yuezhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yuezhi was the name used continuously by ancient Chinese historians to
		alliance with the Yuezhi to counter the Xiongnu threat to the north.
		Although the request for an alliance was denied by the Yuezhi son of
	www.lipsot.com /Yuezhi-4124344.html (1660 words)

	Benjamin - The Migration of the Yuezhi through Sogdia - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran
		Following the defeat of the formerly powerful Yuezhi confederation by the Xiongnu near Dunhuang in c.162 BCE, the Yuezhi dynasty and those tribes that remained loyal to it commenced a migration away from the Gansu that was destined to completely reshape the geopolitics of ancient Inner Asia.
		The Yuezhi's original intention was to move some 2000 kilometres to the northwest and resettle in the valley of the Ili River, a region occupied by a group of Sakas (or Scythians).
		Kangju acknowledged nominal sovereignty (or was subservient) to both the Xiongnu and the Yuezhi; they also assisted the Chinese by helping (or at least not impeding) Zhang Qian in his attempt to locate the Yuezhi and subsequently even sent a 'royal' son as envoy to the Han Court during the reign of Emperor Zheng.
	www.transoxiana.org /Eran/Articles/benjamin.html (8390 words)

	Mongolia - Xiongnu and Yuezhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Xiongnu temporarily abandoned their interest in China and turned their attention westward to the region of the Altai Mountains and Lake Balkash, inhabited by the Yuezhi (Yüeh-chih in Wade-Giles), an Indo-European-speaking nomadic people who had relocated from China's present-day Gansu Province as a result of their earlier defeat by the Xiongnu.
		Endemic warfare between these two nomadic peoples reached a climax in the latter part of the third century and the early decades of the second century B.C.; the Xiongnu were triumphant.
		The Yuezhi then migrated to the southwest where, early in the second century, they began to appear in the Oxus (the modern Amu Darya) Valley, to change the course of history in Bactria, Iran, and eventually India.
	countrystudies.us /mongolia/5.htm (573 words)

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