lived near Didyma (western Asia Minor) were forcibly relocated in Bactria, and later on with other exiled Greeks, most of them prisoners of war. Greek communities and language were already common in the area by the time that Alexander the Great conquered Bactria in 328 BC.

Alexander the Great crossed the Hindu Kush in 329 BCE in pursuit of the Persian Satrap Bessus, entering the Oxus valley that