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Posted by romitalo (U14747882) on Sunday, 9th January 2011
Mr Guy de la Bedoyere wrote in the Daily Mail (letters) in 2009 re some soldiers who were settled in a town called Li-jien (Legion?). What else is known about these soldiers.It`s been said that they were the remnants of soldiers captured by the Parthians after the battle of Carrhae in 53BC. Could that be true?
romitalo
Probably not. Good story though,
ferval
There was a documentary about this on UK TV about 3/4 years ago, maybe longer, which showed Chinese people in a certain area/s had more Causacian facial features etc, and in the local language there were supposedly traces of a Roman legacy?
I found it, here are some links;-
Stating that Romans soldiers never got to China is going to literally ruin the plot for some writers of historical novels
Tabula Peutingeriana
Map of the cursus publicus (roads) goes right up to the Chinese border.
Wiki says;
"The battle [of Carrhae] is also believed to have eventually led to the first Sino-Roman relations [. According to Pliny, in 53 BC, after losing at the battle of Carrhae, 10,000 Roman prisoners were sent by the Parthians to Margiana to help guard the eastern frontier of the Parthian Empire. The Han Chinese later captured this area and the Roman prisoners were likely among the first Europeans to meet the Chinese directly.
According to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔr H. Dubs, eventually part of this legion was recruited as mercenaries by the Xiongnu. They battled with the Chinese during the Battle of Zhizhi, where they were captured by the Chinese and moved to Liqian village, Yongchang County."
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