Tochari
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The Tochari (; , from the Ancient Greek exonym ), also called the Tukharas () or Tukhars (from the Sanskrit exonym [stem form] and the Classical Persian exonym or [singular]), were an ancient people of Bactria, a historical region in Central Asia roughly corresponding to northern Afghanistan and parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
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The Tochari (; , from the Ancient Greek exonym ), also called the Tukharas () or Tukhars (from the Sanskrit exonym [stem form] and the Classical Persian exonym or [singular]), were an ancient people of Bactria, a historical region in Central Asia roughly corresponding to northern Afghanistan and parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
The Tochari were sometimes thought to be a branch of the Turkic peoples, but are now generally considered to have been part of the Yuezhi, a group of Indo-European-speaking tribes mentioned by Chinese sources. The Tochari settled in the eastern parts of Bactria in the 1st century BCE.
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