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	Victor Bregeda \| Tanais
		Tanais is an ancient Greek colony on the river Don.
		Tanais was ruined in the middle of the 4th century AD by the tribes of Gothic union.
		Tanais is situated in a place which is very interesting from geographical point of view, in delta of the river Don.
	www.bregeda.com /tanais.html (348 words)

	Tanais - excavations in a Greek colony on the northeastern coast of the Pontus Euxine (1993-2004)
		Tanais - excavations in a Greek colony on the northeastern coast of the Pontus Euxine (1993-2004)
		Tanais arose in ancient times as a common emporium for Asian and European nomads as well as for merchants, who reached the city on their way to the eastern steppes via the Maiotis plain (Strab.
		The cooperation of 1993-2004 was a joint venture by the Archeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science/Moscow, the Museum Tanais as well as the Archeological Laboratory of State University Rostov and the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute.
	www.dainst.org /index_600_en.html (722 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In antiquity, Tanais was also the name of a city in the Don river delta (Maeotian marshes) that reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Greeks called Lake Maeotis.
		In AD 330 Tanais was devastated by the Goths, but the site was occupied continuously up to the second half of the 5th century AD.
		A joint Russian-German team has recently been excavating at the site of Tanais, with the aim of revealing the heart of the city, the agora, and defining the extent of Hellenistic influence on the urbanism of the Bosporan Greek city, as well as studying defensive responses to the surrounding nomadic cultures.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tanais (474 words)

	TANAIS : River god of Scythia ; Greek mythology
		TANAIS : River god of Scythia ; Greek mythology
		TANAIS was a River-God of Skythia, in North-Eastern Europe (the River Don, of modern-day Russia).
		The Tanais River flowed through the eastern steppeland of Skythia, issuing into the Palus Maeotis (Sea of Azov), in the north-eastern corner of the Black Sea.
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosTanais.html (112 words)

	Tanais
		It is bordered by a natural valley on the east, and an artificial ditch on the west.
		The horseman is in the garb of a Sarmatian or Alan mounted warrior: long scale armour held on by a broad belt, a fluttering cloak with fibula brooch, trousers tucked into soft boots, and a rounded conical helmet.
		A cooperative Russian-German team has been opening Tanais, with the objectives of revealing the heart of the city the agora, to define the degree of Hellenistic influence on the urbanism of a city founded by Bosporan Greeks, and to study the defensive responses to the increasing pressure of the surrounding nomadic cultures.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Tanais.html (590 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		In antiquity, Tanais was also the name of a city in the Don river delta (Maeotian marshes) that reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Greeks called Lake Maeotis.
		In AD330 Tanais was devastated by the Goths, but the site was occupied continuously up to the second half of the 5th century AD.
		A joint Russian-German team has recently been excavating at the site of Tanais, with the aim of revealing the heart of the city, the agora, and defining the extent of Hellenistic influence on the urbanism of the Bosporan Greek city, as well as studying defensive responses to the surrounding nomadic cultures.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tanais (438 words)

	"Zariadres and Odatis" by Aly Mazaheri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Markwart insists on Tanais, although the frontier is the “Caspian Gates” (Pylae Caspiae) and the East is Khorasan/Parthyene (by Baghdad and Balkh is meant East and West).
		According to Chares of Mytilene, the lover, Zariadres, is a prince of the Medes, and the beloved woman, Odatis, a princess of the “Scythes beyond the Tanais”.
		While according to Herodotus and the most ancient geographers, Tanais was the Danube; his narative on the expedition of Darius against the “Scythians from beyond the seas” is not very satisfactory: the Danube is confused with the Don.
	ambarts.tripod.com /files/odatis.htm (2619 words)

	tanais
		Polozenie Tanais z dala od innych miast greckich, na styku cywilizacji antycznej i plemion stepowych, determinowalo jego role jako wielkiego centrum wymiany handlowej i waznego czynnika kulturotwórczego.
		Tanais Zachodni (którego nigdy nie odbudowano po najezdzie Polemona) i Tanais Wschodni, nazywany takze czasami akropolem.
		Tanais Zachodni, który od 1996 roku jest obiektem prac naszej ekspedycji, przedstawiony byl przez Szelowa jako podgrodzie zamieszkale przez ludnosc plemienna.
	www.archeo.uw.edu.pl /Novae/polskie/tanais.html (748 words)

	Tanais - Definition, explanation
		Tanais, (Greek Τάναϊς) is the ancient name for the River Don.
		The site of ancient Tanais is situated near the Russian town of Azov, about 40 km west of modern Rostov on Don.
		In 330 CE Tanais was devastated by the Goths, but the site was occupied continuously up to the second half of the 5th century CE.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/ta/tanais.php (449 words)

	Tanais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tanais ist die alte Bezeichnung für den Fluss Don in Südrussland.
		Der Name "Tanais" ist eine antike griechische Prägung, die Bezeichnung "Don" ist, wie auch die Flussnamen Dnjepr, Dnjestr, Donez und Donau, iranischen Ursprungs.
		Die dort beheimateten iranischsprachigen Skythen und Sarmaten gaben diesen Flüssen ihre Namen.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/de/wikipedia/t/ta/tanais.html (59 words)

	Tanais & the Dragon Cub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tanais paused and looked at Badger as he took another draught from his glass and contemplated his hat with the letter sticking out of it.
		Tanais sat back and put his paws up on a stool next to the table quickly putting them down as Badger glared at him from over his spectacles.
		Tanais fumbled with his pipe and shrugged again, "I then told them everything; how I found the egg, how I had hidden it from the knight, and how I dropped it near the fire and it's hatching.
	www.siddhartha.com /~tanais/storyteller/dracub.html (5796 words)

	Origin by Yair Davidiy chapter six
		Tanais was Scythian in the sense that the Royal Scythes and the Arasacid Parthian rulers were Scythians.
		She also says that the guilds dedicated to Aspourgos in Tanais had ceremonies that recalled (or were later interpreted as recalling) the messianic aspects of Joseph, the selection of Joseph as ruler, and the reconciliation of Joseph with his brothers (Genesis 45:4, 5).
		Tanais was abandoned in the early 400s CE, about the time of the Hun invasion of Europe, and its inhabitants apparently joined their Scythian brothers and moved westward.
	www.britam.org /originsix.html (4231 words)

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