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	Scythia - LoveToKnow 1911
		These tribes raised wheat, presumably in the river valleys, and sold it for export; in the eastern half from west to east were Georgi (perhaps the same as Aroteres) between the Ingul and the Borysthenes (Dnieper), nomad Scyths and Royal Scyths between the Borysthenes and the Tanais (Don).
		On the lower Don and Volga we have the Sauromatae, and on the middle course of the Volga the Budini with the great wooden town of Gelonus and its semi-Greek inhabitants.
		To the south of Scythia the Crimean mountains were inhabited by a non-Sythic race, the Tauri.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Scythia (4517 words)

	Scythia Minor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scythia Minor (Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία, Mikrá Scythia) was in ancient times the region surrounded by the Danube at the north and west and the Black Sea at the east, corresponding to today's Dobruja (a large part in Romania and a smaller part in Bulgaria).
		In the 2nd century BC degree of Histria to Agathocles, the region already was named as Scythia, while the earliest usage of the name of Scythia Minor (actually, Mikrá Scythia) was found in Strabo's Geography.
		Scythia Minor was inhabited in early times by Dacians and Celts and later invaded by Scythians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scythia_Minor (252 words)

	Scythia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scythia was an area in Eurasia inhabited in ancient times by a group of Iranian people speaking Indo-Iranian languages, known as the Scythians.
		In the second paragraph of the Declaration of Arbroath, Scythia is claimed as a former homeland of the Scots.
		Livio Stecchini, "The Mapping of the Earth: Scythia": reconstructing the map of Scythia according to the conceptual geography of Herodotus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scythia (4174 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Scythia
		Scythia was an area in Eurasia inhabited in ancient times by an Indo-Aryans known as the Scythians.
		The location and extent of Scythia varied over time from the Altai region where Mongolia, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan come together to the lower Danube river area and Bulgaria.
		Livio Stecchini, "The Mapping of the Earth: Scythia": reconstructing the map of Scythia according to the conceptual geography of Herodotus
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Scythians (2408 words)

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		Scythia Minor, "Lesser Scythia" (, Mikrá Skythia) was in ancient times the region surrounded by the Danube at the north and west and the Black Sea at the east, corresponding to today's Dobruja, with a large part in Romania and a smaller part in Bulgaria.
		During Diocletian's reforms, it was split from Moesia as a separate province of "Scythia", being part of the Diocese of Thrace.
		It retained the name Scythia Minor, until the region's loss during the early 7th century to the migrating Slavs and Bulgars.
	www.maxpedia.org /cgi-bin/mp/m.pl?la=en&sw=Scythia+Minor (315 words)

	SCYTHIA - LoveToKnow Article on SCYTHIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These tribes raised wheat, presumably in the river valleys, and sold it for export; in the eastern half from west to east were Georgi (perhaps the same as Aroteres) between the Ingul and the Borysthenes (Dnieper), nomad Scyths and Royal Scyths between the Borysthen.es and the Tanais (Don).
		To the south of Scythia the Crimean mountains were inhabited by a non-Sythic race, the Tauri.
		It is probable that the Iranian element was stronger among the Sarmatae, whose power exten.ded as the ruling clan of the Scyths became extinct; but it is quite likely that they in their turn were officered by some new horde from upper Asia.
	47.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SC/SCYTHIA.htm (4683 words)

	Tomi
		The city was afterwards included in the Province of Moesia, and, from the time of Diocletian, in Scythia Minor, of which it was the metropolis.
		Macrobius, Gordianus, and their companions, exiled to Scythia and slain in 319, venerated on 13 Sept.; Sts.
		The Province of Scythia formed a single diocese, that of Tomi, and autocephalous archdiocese, subject to the patriarch of Constantinople.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tomi.html (425 words)

	Masonic Forum Magazine No. 17. Spring 6004 A.L. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These relics represent one of the most relevant arguments of the early Christianity in Scythia Minor, and their martyr act of these two saints is very important, since it certifies the first bishopric of Tomis.
		Regarding the church organization of the province Scythia Minor, it is well known that until the rule of the emperor Anastasius (491 — 518) a sole bishop governed the church, having his headquarters in Tomis.
		During the 9th century the province of Scythia Minor continues to be mentioned as an ‘arch-bishopric’.
	www.masonicforum.ro /en/nr17/tomis.html (3480 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tomi
		A titular metropolitan see in the Province of Scythia, on the Black Sea.
		In 29 B.C. the Romans captured the country from the Odryses, and annexed it as far as the Danube, under the name of Limes Scythicus.
		Macrobius, Gordianus, and their companions, exiled to Scythia and slain in 319, venerated on 13 Sept.; Sts.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14775a.htm (352 words)

	Herodotus biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He was the son of Lyxes and Rhœo, or Dryo, and was born at Halicarnassus (q.v.), an originally Doric colony in southwestern Asia Minor, at that time ruled by a Queen Artemisia under the sway of the Persians.
		Between 467 and 464 he is believed to have traveled extensively on the shores of the Black Sea, in Thrace, Scythia, Asia Minor, and the Persian Empire, including Egypt.
		Their themes are as follows: (iv) The campaigns of Persia, in Scythia and Libya, with vast geographical and ethnological digressions.
	www.dromo.info /herodotusbio.htm (1347 words)

	SCYTHIAN GOLD
		According to Herodotus Greater Scythia occupied a large rectangle of land extending nearly 700 km (20 days travel) from the Danube River in the west across the Black Sea coast and steppe region of what is today Ukraine to the lower Don Basin in the east.
		The Scythians were forced out of the steppe into Scythia Minor - the Crimea and the Dobrudja region south of the Danube Delta - in the 3rd century BC.
		They were forced out of Asia Minor early in the 6th century BC by the Medes, who had by then assumed control of Persia, and retreated to their lands between the lower Danube and the Don, known as *Scythia.
	www.geocities.com /ludm_2000/scyt1.htm (1796 words)

	BRILL
		Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia is an international journal covering such topics as history, archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy, papyrology and the history of material culture.
		Particular emphasis is given to the Black Sea area, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Siberia and Central Asia, and the littoral of the Indian Ocean.
		Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia has already established itself as an invaluable resource for the subject both in the private collections of professors and scholars as well as in the major research libraries of the world.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=7108 (598 words)

	A.K.B.A. - American Karachai-Kavkaz Benevolent Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Scythia of that time was a wide political association consisting of a few almost independent parts, severe wars often occurring between them.
		This territory was known among Ancient authors under the name of Scythia Minor, in contrast to the main Scythia on the banks of Dnieper and in the steppes of the Northern coast of the Black Sea.
		In the Danube steppes, on the territory of the former Scythia Minor, Huns created a new state headed by the legendary chief Attila, whose name is derived by scientists from the Turk word "ata", father.
	www.akba.org /english/khistory2.html (7632 words)

	Invatamantul Religios \| History of The Romanian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Christian faith was known South of the Danube, in Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia of today as far back as the second half of the first century, through the preaching of Saint Paul and his disciples.
		The new faith was known in the North of the Danube, in the Roman province Dacia Traiana (106), as far back as the second and third centuries, brought by the colonists and the soldiers of the Roman army, settled in Dacia, or by various merchants.
		There was a diocesan seat at Tomis in Scythia Minor, recorded in 396 and sheperded by diligent bishops (Bretanion, Gerontius, Teotim I, Timotei, Ioan, Alexandru, Teotim II, Paternus, Valentinian).
	www.invatamantul-religios.go.ro /history.html (1760 words)

	Virtual Rome: Moesia Inferiorus caesari
		Under the late empire, it became capital of the province of Scythia, and increased substantially in importance.
		In 251 the Goths under Kniva stormed the city, but were driven off by Trebonianus Gallus, governor of the 2 Moesias, who owed his subsequent call to the purple (after the death in battle of the Emperor Trajanus Decius) to this success.
		A city of Scythia Minor (Dobrogea) on the Rumanian coast of the Euxine (Black) Sea, colonized by Miletus in Ionia (western Asia Minor) c 500-475 BC.
	magellannarfe.com /virtualrome/central/thracia/moesiainferior/page.htm (1106 words)

	Scythia Minor - Definition, explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Schythia Minor was in ancient times the region sorrounded by Danube at north and west and the Black Sea at east, corresponding to today's Dobruja (a part in Romania and a smaller part in Bulgaria).
		Scythia Minor was inhabited initally by Dacians and Celts and later invaded by Scythians.
		By the 7th century bc, several Greek colonies were built on its Black Sea shore.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sc/scythia_minor.php (159 words)

	THE ORIGIN AND DEEDS OF THE GOTHS
		Thence the victors hastened to the farthest part of Scythia, which is near the sea of Pontus; for so the story is generally told in their early songs, in almost historic fashion.
		On the west are the Germans and the river Vistula; on the arctic side, namely the north, it is surrounded by Ocean; on the south by Persis, Albania, Hiberia, Pontus and the farthest channel of the Ister, which is called the Danube all the way from mouth to source.
		In the midst of Scythia is the place that separates Asia and Europe, I mean the Rhipaeian mountains, from which the mighty Tanais flows.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html (22933 words)

	Muzeul National de Istorie a Romaniei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sometimes the steles make common body with the crowning, but in most cases the crowning are discovered as isolated pieces.
		The scene of the funerary banquet has an important role in the funerary thematic and it appears not only on the steles but also on the aedicule's walls and altars.
		Funerary steles decorated with the cross sign and some with pigeons, with the inscription written ether in Latin or Greek were discovered in province Scythia Minor, at Tomis and Tropaeum Traiani.
	www.mnir.ro /expozit/lapidarium/lapid3_uk.htm (432 words)

	The Origin and Deeds of the Goths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		V Now Scythia borders on the land of Germany as 30 far as the source of the river Ister and the expanse of the Morsian Swamp.
		This land, I say,—namely, Scythia, 31 stretching far and spreading wide,—has on the east the Seres, a race that dwelt at the very beginning of their history on the shore of the Caspian Sea.
		In the land of Scythia to the westward dwells, first of 33 all, the race of the Gepidae, surrounded by great and famous rivers.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books171c/ogoth.htm (23509 words)

	Regional Names in the Central and Eastern Parts of the Balkan Peninsula - Peter Koledarov
		The names of the provinces Thrace, Illyria, Macedonia, Scythia, Dacia, [1] etc. were established and adopted by the old inhabitants of the Balkans, since in general terms they corresponded to the countries settled in by the various groups (ethnicons).
		One embraced the former provinces of Scythia Minor and Moesia, and the other was located in central Macedonia.
		The first themes were set up in Asia Minor to facilitate waging the wars against the Persians and the Arabs, and later, also in the Balkans, for the campaigns against the Proto-Bulgarians and the Sclavinians.
	www.kroraina.com /knigi/en/pk/pkoled.html (6918 words)

	Church of Romania - OrthodoxWiki
		While Dacia was only for a short time part of the Roman Empire, Scythia Minor (modern Dobrogea) was part of it much longer and after the breakdown of the Roman Empire, it became part of the Byzantine Empire.
		The first encounter of Christianity in Scythia Minor was when St. Andrew, brother of St. Peter, and their disciples passed through it in the first century.
		Indeed, by becoming members of the "Greek-rite Roman Catholic" church, a minority of Romanians in Transylvania eventually managed to be recognized as a nation by the Hapsburg rulers, achieving status equal to the three Transylvanian peoples collectively known as the Unio Trium Nationum.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_Romania (2196 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Dobruja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In subsequent centuries, control of the region was held at various times by the Macedonians, the Scythians, the Getae-Dacians, and the Sarmatians.
		In 46 it was annexed by the Roman Empire as Scythia Minor, part of Moesia.
		As part of the treaty, the Romanian inhabitants (most of them being Aromanian refugee-settlers from Macedonia along with colonists from Wallachia and the Romanians indigenous to the region) were forced to leave the regained territory, while the Bulgarian minority in the north were in turn made to leave for Bulgaria.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Dobruja (2628 words)

	Rum. orthodoxe Metropolie - Kurze Einführung
		Aus der Kirchengeschichte erfahren wir, daß Kirchen aus Scythia Minor (die heutige Dobroudscha) und nördlich der Donau die ganze Zeit über mit der universalen Kirche in Gemeinschaft standen.
		Ebenso zählt die Kirchengeschichte unter den Teilnehmern bei den ökumenischen Konzylien von Nicea (325), Konstantinopel (381), Ephesus (431), Chalzedon (451) oder bei den Lokalsynoden, Bischöfe aus Scythia Minor und behält die Beziehungen der Kirche dieser Gegend mit Konstantinopel in Erinnerung.
		Der Briefwechsel zwischen Basilius dem Großen und dem Gouverneur von Scythia Minor über den Hl.
	www.mitropolia-ro.de /mains/dt-histo.htm (4061 words)

	SFANTUL APOSTOL ANDREI, PROPOVADUITORUL EVANGHELIEI IN SCYTHIA MINOR (DOBROGEA)
		Sirul "sfintilor nationali" ar putea incepe cu unul din apostolii Mantuitorului Isus Hristos, si anume cu Sfantul Andrei.
		In urma poruncii Domnului, de a vesti Evanghelia la toate neamurile, dupa pogorarea Duhului Sfant si intemeierea Bisericii crestine la Ierusalim, in ziua cincizecimii din anul 30, Sfintii Apostoli si apoi ucenicii lor, au inceput sa predice noua invatatura adusa in lume de Mantuitorul Iisus Hristos.
		Hr., intreg teritoriul dintre Dunare si Marea Neagra a fost cucerit de romani si anexat la provincia Moesia Inferior (Bulgaria rasariteana de azi), iar in anul 297, in timpul imparatului roman Diocletian, a devenit provincie aparte, sub numele de Scythia Minor (Scitia Mica).
	www.crestinism-ortodox.ro /html/08/8c_sfantul_apostol_andrei.html (1644 words)

	The Roman Dacians' Christianization
		In his "History of the Church", the bishop Eusebiu from Cezareea (Palestine) wrote that it was the Saint Apostle Andrew spread Christ's ideas in the Pontic Dacia, the Scythia Minor Roman province, that corresponds to the Romanian province of Dobrogea (located in the south-eastern part of Romania
		During the persecution of Dicletian and Liciniu at the beginning of the 4th century, the Roman soldiers of Scythia Minor suffered because of their belief in Christ, too.
		At the end of the military probation that lasted 25 years, the men discharged were given the name of "veteranus" - word from where the Romanian term "batran" evolved.
	www.comenius.co.uk /lang-chr1-ro.html (699 words)

	THE THRACIANS WERE DACIANS
		In 547 BC Cyrus' Persians defeated the Thracian Lydian kingdom in Asia Minor, extending their sovereignty as far to the northwest as the southern shore of the Sea of Marmara.
		The Persian king Darius I (522-486 BC) undertook an expedition northwards of the Danube, and according to Herodotus, the only branch of the Thracians to fight with them were the Getae from Scythia Minor (Dobrogea), who would not have Darius settle down there.
		Considering the similarities and links between the Hittite and Aryan languages, it is obvious that the peoples' migration took place from the west to the east, that is from Europe to Asia and not the other way round.
	www.dacia.org /history/trdac_e.html (2868 words)

	Historical information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The beginnings of Christianity in Rus' Ukraine can be traced to the missionary activities of St. Andrew.
		According to ancient writings, this apostle preached in Scythia, Asia Minor and Greece.
		In his "Primary Chronicle", Nestor the Chronicler, claims that St. Andrew visit the location of the future capital of Ukraine where he raised a cross and predicted that someday the site would receive many of God's blessings.
	www.atlpro.com /ukrainian/history.html (398 words)

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