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Scythia

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Scyth·i·a  (sth-, s-)
An ancient region of Eurasia extending from the mouth of the Danube River on the Black Sea to the territory east of the Aral Sea. The nomadic people of the region flourished from the eighth to the fourth century b.c. but were conquered by the Sarmatians in the second century and were soon subsumed into other cultures.
Scythia [ˈsɪðɪə]
n
(Placename) an ancient region of SE Europe and Asia, north of the Black Sea: now part of the Ukraine
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Noun1.Scythia - an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC
Eurasia - the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
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Scythia
n → Skythien nt


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Seeing, on the other side, some Cossacks (les Cosaques) and the wide-spreading steppes in the midst of which lay the holy city of Moscow (Moscou, la ville sainte), the capital of a realm such as the Scythia into which Alexander the Great had marched- Napoleon unexpectedly, and contrary alike to strategic and diplomatic considerations, ordered an advance, and the next day his army began to cross the Niemen.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
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