Major ancient towns and colonies in Schythia Minor

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). 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 (German: , Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: , Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: , Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... Map of the Black Sea. ... Dobruja, or sometimes Dobrudja (Dobrogea in Romanian, Добруджа—transliterated Dobrudzha—in Bulgarian, Dobruca in Turkish), is the territory between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta and the Romanian coast. ...

Name

The earliest description of the region was found in Herodot's works, however, he named Scythia as the region starting north of the Danube Delta. 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. Herodotus was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC - c. ... Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an electrum cup from the KulOba kurgan burial near Kerch. ... (3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) // Events 175 BCE - Antiochus IV Epiphanes, took possession of the Syrian throne, at the murder of his brother Seleucus IV Philopator, which rightly belonged to his nephew Demetrius I Soter. ... Strabo (squinty) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. ...

History

Scythia Minor was inhabited in early times by Dacians and Celts and later invaded by Scythians. By the 7th century BC, several Greek colonies were built on its Black Sea shore. 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, but it was lost during the Middle Ages to the migrating peoples. Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient greeks Getae, was a large district of Central 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... This article is about the European people. ... Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an electrum cup from the KulOba kurgan burial near Kerch. ... (8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC - other centuries) (700s BC - 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC - 620s BC - 610s BC - 600s BC - other decades) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events Scythians arrived in Asia Collapse... The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Augustus). ... In ancient geography, Moesia was a district inhabited chiefly by Thracian peoples. ... Thrace (Greek Θρᾴκη, Thrákē, Bulgarian Тракия, Trakija, Turkish Trakya; Latin: Thracia or Threcia) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece (Western Thrace), and European Turkey. ... Byzantine Empire (Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ...

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