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Hormizd I, Sassanian coin Some of the Saka-Scythian tribes in Central Asia would later move further southeast and invade the Ira ...

the official language spoken throughout much of what is today Iran and the Caucasus. Iranian influence spread to the neighbourin ...

The Assyrians rendered the name of the Scythians as Iškuzaya ( ), māt Iškuzaya ( ), and awīlū Iškuzaya ( ),[20][21] or ālu Asguz ...

Scythologist Askold Ivantchik notes with dismay that the term "Scythian" has been used within both a broad and a narrow context, ...

 Panticapes (Inhulets),  Hypacyris,  Gerrhus,  and Tanais (Don). The region within the Scythian Pontic realm which was cover ...

Origins See also: Sintashta culture, Srubnaya culture, Andronovo culture, and Scytho-Siberian world According to archaeological ...

Some of the earliest Scythian artefacts in Animal style, Arzhan kurgan, Southern Siberia, dated to 8-7th century BC. Arrowheads ...

the Muğan plain, and turned eastern Transcaucasia into their centre of operations in West Asia until the early 6th century BC,[4 ...

Arrival in the Pontic steppe From their base in the Caucasian Steppe, during the period of the 8th to 7th centuries BC itself, t ...

northern markets. This process put the Scythians into permanent contact with the Greeks, and the relations between the latter an ...

Presence in West Asia Gold Scythian belt title, Mingəçevir (ancient Scythian kingdom), Azerbaijan, 7th-4th century BC[95][96] Du ...

Bartatua and the alliance with Assyria Išpakaia was succeeded by Bartatua, who might have been his son,[100] and with whom they ...

Within the Scythian religion, the goddess Artimpasa and the Snake-Legged Goddess were significantly influenced by the Mesopotami ...

An Assyrian relief depicting Cimmerian mounted warriors Lycian charioteer warriors A Thracian mounted warrior followed by a warr ...

Defeat of the Cimmerians During the 7th century BC, the bulk of Cimmerians were operating in Anatolia, where they constituted a ...

This final defeat of the Cimmerians was carried out by the joint forces of Madyes, whom Strabo credits with expelling the Treres ...

The pharaoh Psamtik I Raid till Egypt Shortly after Madyes's assassination, some time between 623 and 616 BC, the Scythians took ...

These contingents participated in the battle of Carchemish in 605 BC,[130] while clay figurines depicting Scythian riders, as we ...

into the northern Pontic region through Crimea, archaeological evidence instead suggests that the Royal Scythians migrated north ...

located the main industrial centre of Scythia:[138] and which corresponded to the country of Gerrhos , which was located in the ...