The Achaei were an ancient people of Scythia, mentioned by Strabo (11.2, together with the Zygoi, Heniochi, and Cercetae and Macropogones) and by Pliny...
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Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) in his Natural History mentions a "port of the Achæi" and an "island of Achilles", famous for the tomb of that "man" (portus...
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Book Section Description XI 1 The Sarmatians, Aorsi, Siraci, Moeotae, Achaei, Zygii, Heniochi, Cercetae, and Macropogones 3 The city of Tanais 4 The Maeotae...
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Bosporus, or the Syndic territory. After this latter, one comes to the Achaei and the Zygii and the Heniochi, and also the Cercetae and the Macropogones...
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at the foot of the acropolis of Asopus were the ruins of the city of the Achaei Paracyparissii. Asopus was a town of the Eleuthero-Laconians. Its site is...
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Sea) (the Old Persian word "Saka" covered both Scythians and Sarmatians) Achaei (Acae) Agavi Scythae Core Scythians Arpoxaians-Colaxaians-Lipoxaians Arpoxaians...
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ISSN 1088-9051. PMC 310947. PMID 11042150. Ben Aryeh, Menachem; Yisrael, Achaei (1980), D. Niv (ed.), Rosh Pina Bat Maa ראש פנה בת מאה [Rosh Pena is a hundred...
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trade, and kidnapping people for ransom. Strabo described the habits of Achaei, Zygi, and Heniochi in his Geography as follows: These people subsist by...
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and works of the Greek sculptor Skopas called Skopas: Leben und Werke. Achaei Eretriensis quae supersunt, dissertation Bonn 1834 Disputatio critica de...
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the Amazons and the Hyperboreans, together with the Cimmerii, Cissianti, Achaei, Georgili, Moschi, Phoristae and Rimphaces. Zygii Circassians Maeotians...
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