PAKOL - THE GREEK KAUSIA WHICH REACHED CENTRAL ASIA

The kausia (Ancient Greek: καυσία ) was an ancient Greek  flat hat.
It was worn during the Hellenistic period but perhaps even before the time of Alexander the Great, and was later used as a protection against the sun.

Depictions of the kausia can be found on a variety of coins and statues found from the Mediterranean to the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the Indo-Greeks in northwestern India. The Persians referred to the Macedonians as Yaunã Takabara or "Greeks ('Ionians') with hats that look like shields", possibly referring to the Macedonian kausia hat.

In Greece, we find statuettes and mosaics of the 5th and 4th c. BCE, in which the depicted people wear the kausia. Also, Alexander the Great has also been depicted  wearing the kausia.

A modern descendant of the hat is the pakol in Asia and the beret in Europe.