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BCE (182 words) |
 | BCE is an abbreviation for "Before the Common Era". |
 | The use of BCE to replace BC is usually advocated on the grounds that the counting of years in relation to the birth of Jesus is biased too strongly in the service of Christianity. |
 | BCE is the abbreviation in Romance languages for the European Central Bank. |
| Indo-Scythians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1814 words) |
 | Around 175 BCE, the Yuezhi tribes (probable related to the Tocharians) who lived in modern day Gansu, were defeated by the Xiongnu (Huns) tribes, and had to migrate towards the West into the Ili river area. |
 | Sometime after 155 BCE, the Yuezhi were again defeated by an alliance of the Wusun and the Xiongnu, and were forced to move south, again displacing the Scythians, who migrated south towards Bactria, and south-west towards Parthia and Afghanistan. |
 | The presence of the Scythians in north-western India during the 1st century BCE was contemporary with that of the Indo-Greek Kingdoms there, and it seems they initially recognized the power of the local Greek rulers. |