Major ancient towns and colonies in Scythia Minor

Scythia Minor, "Lesser Scythia" (Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία, 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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (950x886, 194 KB) Summary made by me using a pd map from www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (950x886, 194 KB) Summary made by me using a pd map from www. ... The Danube (ancient Danuvius, ancient Greek Istros) is the longest river of the European Union and Europes second-longest[3] (after the Volga). ... Map of the Black Sea. ... Map of Romania with Northern Dobruja highlighted in orange and Bulgaria with Southern Dobruja highlighted in yellow. ...

The earliest description of the region is found in Herodotus, who named Scythia the region starting north of the Danube Delta. In the 2nd century BC decree of Histria honouring Agathocles, the region already was named as Scythia, while the earliest usage of the name "Scythia Minor" (Mikrá Skythia) is found in Strabo's early first-century Geography. Bust of Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (in Greek, , Herodotos Halikarnasseus) was a Dorian Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC–ca. ... Approximate extent of Scythia and Sarmatia in the 1st century BC (the orange background shows the spread of Eastern Iranian languages, among them Scytho-Sarmatian). ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 2nd century BC started on January 1, 200 BC and ended on December 31, 101 BC. // Coin of Antiochus IV. Reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Histria Histria was first a Miletus colony and latter a roman town. ... The Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th century engraving. ...

By the 7th century BC, several Greek colonies were built on its Black Sea shore, and the Greek reports state that the lands were inhabited by Thracians, from which later the Getae (Daci) tribe would branch out. During later times, the area also witnessed Celtic and Scythian invasions. It was part of the kingdom of Dacia for a period, after which the region was conquered by the Roman Empire (becoming part of the Moesia Inferior province, being eventually split from Moesia as "Scythia" province, later being part of the Diocese of Thracia), then passed to the Byzantine Empire, still retaining its name Scythia Minor. (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 7th century BC started on January 1, 700 BC and ended on December 31, 601 BC. // Overview Events Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria who created the the first systematically collected library at Nineveh A 16th century depiction of the Hanging Gardens of... Thracian peltast, 5th to 4th century BC Thracian Horseman Thracians in an ethnic sense refers to various ancient peoples who spoke Dacian and Thracian, a scarcely attested branch of the Indo-European language family. ... The Getae was the name by which the pre-Roman ancient writers reffered to the tribes that will become the later Dacians. ... Celts redirects here. ... Approximate extent of Scythia and Sarmatia in the 1st century BC (the orange background shows the spread of Eastern Iranian languages, among them Scytho-Sarmatian). ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Southeastern Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now... The Roman Empire is the name given to both the domain obtained by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... Moesia is an ancient province situated in the areas of modern Serbia and Bulgaria. ... Thrace (Bulgarian: , Greek: , Latin: , Turkish: ) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. ... Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent c. ...

As the region was lost during the Migration Period to the migrating peoples from the 4th century AD, the Classical name fell out of use. Human migration denotes any movement of groups of people from one locality to another, rather than of individual wanderers. ...

See also

• List of ancient towns in Scythia Minor

This is a list of towns in Scythia Minor that were mentioned in ancient writings. ...

References

• Dicţionar de istorie veche a României ("Dictionary of ancient Romanian history") (1976) Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, pp. 536-537