Scythia (redirected from Scythians)

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.

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Scythia [ˈsɪðɪə]

n

(Placename) an ancient region of SE Europe and Asia, north of the Black Sea: now part of the Ukraine

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

Translations

Scythia

n → Skythien nt