Laurianne Martinez-Sève. « Les Grecs d’extrême Orient : communautés grecques d’Asie Centrale et d’Iran »

The presence of Greek people in Asia became massive after Alexander’s conquest of the Achaemenid empire, since he founded a network of settlements in which veterans and mercenaries of his army were installed. At his death, even the Seleucids, the dynasts who succeeded him in the government of Asia, followed Alexander’s policy and attracted many Greeks and Macedonians to the eastern satrapies. Historical sources attest that some Greeks, deported or settled down in the major Achaemenid centres,..