scythia in English

noun
1
an ancient region in southeastern Europe and Asia. The center of the Scythian empire, which existed between the 8th and 2nd centuries bc , was on the northern shores of the Black Sea and extended from southern Russia to the borders of Persia.

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1. Axemen are a type of heavy infantry unit available to Germania and Scythia in Rome: Total War

2. The character of Andromache of Scythia was born as far back as 4500 BC, according to the comic book

3. Archeologically, late Scythia appears first of all as a conglomerate of fortified and non-fortified settlements with abutting agricultural zones.

4. Part of Scythia in the 1st millennium bce, Bessarabia later came marginally under the control of the Roman Empire as part of Dacia

5. Other Anthropophagites can be found in Scythia: “When parents grow old here, their children kill themselves and their parents consume their flesh

6. Their ships were blown north to the Maeotian Lake (the Sea of Azov) onto the shore of Scythia near the cliff region (today's southeastern Crimea).

7. When in 331 BC Zopyrion, Alexander's viceroy in Thrace, "not wishing to sit idle", invaded Scythia and besieged Pontic Olbia, he suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Scythians and lost his life.