Pāli Dictionary
yona
Part of speech
noun · neuter
general
希臘人，臾那人；希臘人之地（大夏，約今阿富汗一帶）
the Greeks, Ionians; the land of the Greeks (Bactria, roughly modern Afghanistan)
Encyclopedia
指巴克特里亞希臘人（愛奧尼亞人）的國度，為阿育王帝國的邊疆屬地之一，後來也是派遣僧侶前往斯里蘭卡的地區。
A country and people identified with the Bactrian Greeks (Ionians), listed as a frontier territory of Asoka’s empire and later a source of Buddhist monks who travelled to Sri Lanka.
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