Han conquest of Daysuan
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The Kingdom of Dayuan was conquered by Han China.
Chronology
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January 159 BC: Dayuan is the Chinese exonym for a country that existed in Ferghana valley, described in chinese sources like the accounts of explorer Zhang Qian in 130 BC. The country of Dayuan is generally accepted as relating to the Ferghana Valley, controlled by the Greek polis Alexandria Eschate.The Dayuan were the descendants of Greeks forcibly resettled in the area by the Persian Empire, as well as the subsequent Greek colonists that were settled by Alexander the Great in Ferghana in 329 BC, and had prospered within the Hellenistic realm of the Seleucids and Greco-Bactrians, until they were isolated by the migrations of the Yuezhi around 160 BC.
