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    Scythia Minor or Lesser Scythia (Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία, romanized: Mikra Skythia) was a Roman province in late antiquity, corresponding to the lands between...
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  • Danube (Ancient Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία, romanized: Mikra Skuthia; Latin: Scythia Minor) was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 3rd century BCE in...
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    (Ancient Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία, romanized: Mikra Skuthia; Latin: Scythia Minor, lit. 'Lesser Scythia') was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 3rd century...
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    Dacia (section Scythia Minor)
    separate province under the name of Scythia Minor around 293. The existence of Christian communities in Scythia Minor became evident under Emperor Diocletian...
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  • Scythia Minor (Ancient Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία, romanized: Mikra Skuthia; Latin: Scythia Minor, lit. 'Lesser Scythia') was the name of a number of various...
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    in Scythia Minor. He was a member of a community of Scythian monks concentrated in Tomis (present-day Constanța, Romania), the major city of Scythia Minor...
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  • This is a list of towns in Scythia Minor that were mentioned in ancient writings. List of ancient Thracian cities List of Dacian cities Peuce Island STRATEG...
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    Cernavodă (category Greek colonies in Scythia Minor)
    Cernavodă (Romanian pronunciation: [t͡ʃernaˈvodə]) is a town in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania with a population of 15,088 as of 2021. The...
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    Voragine's Golden Legend (c. 1260), Andrew preached in Scythia, a possible reference to Scythia Minor, corresponding to the modern-day regions of Northern...
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    defeated by the Khazar Empire in 668 AD. In 681, Khan Asparukh conquered Scythia Minor, opening access to Moesia, and established the Danubian Bulgaria – the...
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    the Notitia Dignitatum of c. 400, Scythia belonged to the Diocese of Thrace. The indigenous population of Scythia Minor was Dacian and their material culture...
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    Voragine in the Golden Legend (c. 1260). Scythia generally refers to a land in what is now Romania (Scythia Minor), Ukraine and southern Russia. Historian...
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    romanized: peúkē, lit. 'pine tree') is a former island in the Danube Delta, in Scythia Minor (present-day Tulcea County, Romania). It was about the size of the island...
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    Varna, Bulgaria (category Greek colonies in Scythia Minor)
    Quaestura exercitus ruled by a prefect of Scythia or quaestor Justinianus and including Lower Moesia, Scythia, Caria, the Aegean Islands and Cyprus; later...
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    Histria (ancient city) (category Greek colonies in Scythia Minor)
    afterwards. At the Battle of Histria in c. 62–61 BC the Bastarnae peoples of Scythia Minor defeated the Roman Consul Gaius Antonius Hybrida, Governor of Macedonia...
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  • Town life came to an end in Dacia with the Roman withdrawal, and in Scythia Minor – the other Roman province in the territory of present-day Romania –...
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    Mangalia (category Greek colonies in Scythia Minor)
    Mangalia (Romanian pronunciation: [maŋˈɡali.a] , Turkish: Mankalya), ancient Callatis (Greek: Κάλλατις/Καλλατίς; other historical names: Pangalia, Panglicara...
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  • Antiochene Archbishop of Constantinople John Cassian (360–435), probably Scythia-Minor priest and abbot John and Paul (died 362), Roman martyrs John of Egypt...
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    to teach his distinctive doctrines, by banishing him to Halmyris in Scythia Minor. He afterwards resided at Chalcedon and at Caesarea in Cappadocia, from...
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    Constanța (category Greek colonies in Scythia Minor)
    included in the Province of Moesia and, from the time of Diocletian, in Scythia Minor of which it was the capital. In 269 the city was attacked by the Goths...
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    (Transylvania), while the Getae proper gravitated towards the Black Sea coast (Scythia Minor). Since the writings of Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Getae/Dacians...
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    the Danube. In 72 BC, his troops occupied the Greek coastal cities of Scythia Minor (modern Dobruja region, Romania/Bulgaria), which had sided with Rome's...
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    Moesian Limes and Scythia Minor...
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  • settled in the area around the Danube delta, and subsequently conquered Scythia Minor and Moesia Inferior from the Byzantine Empire, expanding his new kingdom...
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  • Altina was an ancient settlement or fortress in Scythia Minor. The site is now the modern village of Oltina. v t e v t e...
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  • disputes between the 4th and 6th centuries. The name Scythian comes from Scythia Minor, the classical name of the modern Dobruja region in Romania and Bulgaria...
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  • of Corpus Areopagiticum Dionysius Exiguus (c. 470–c. 540), monk from Scythia Minor who invented the Anno Domini era Dionysius I Telmaharoyo (d. 848), Syriac...
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    might have been preserved among modern Bulgarians (and Macedonians). Scythia Minor and Moesia Inferior appear to have been Romanized, although the region...
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    of Histria, c. 62–61 BC, was fought between the Bastarnae peoples of Scythia Minor and the Roman Consul (63 BC) Gaius Antonius Hybrida. The Bastarnae emerged...
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  • the 270s. Modern Dobruja became a separate province under the name of Scythia Minor in 297. The oldest proof that an Orthodox church hierarchy existed among...
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