Kingdom of Dayuan

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A country that existed in the Ferghana valley in Central Asia. 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 BCE (foundation of Alexandria Eschate), 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 BCE.

Establishment

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.

Chronology

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1. War of the Heavenly Horses

Was a military conflict fought in 104 BC and 102 BC between the Chinese Han dynasty and the Saka-ruled (Scythian) Greek kingdom known to the Chinese as Dayuan, in the Ferghana Valley at the easternmost end of the former Persian Empire.

1.1.Han conquest of Daysuan

The Kingdom of Dayuan was conquered by Han China.

2. Han-Xiongnu War

Was a series of military battles fought between the Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation.

January 100 BC: The refusal of the Dayuan kingdom, a nation centered in Ferghana, to provide the Han empire with the horses and the execution of a Han envoy led to conflict. The Han forces brought Dayuan into submission in 101 BC.

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