Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 BC but were conquered by the Sarmatians in the second century and were soon subsumed into other cultures.
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- proper noun A region in eastern
Europe and westernAsia , often associated with southernRussia . Precise boundaries vary with author.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
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Examples
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Mountains and flows right through Europe till it empties its waters into the Black Sea, giving us a long and detailed account of a country he calls Scythia (Russia) with many rivers flowing into this same Black
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It was the customary style of polite letter-writing in Scythia at that period, the Scythians being in just that stage of barbarism which the Persians, the Egyptians, and the other great nations of the East had left behind and forgotten.
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Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph and a Russian conqueror.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph [140] and a Russian conqueror.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Some think they find them afar off, in Scythia, Tartary, and Russia.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Scythia is about one hundred and ten degrees, which, in that parallel, are equal to more than five thousand miles.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the Barbarians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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And toward the sea Ocean in Ind is the kingdom of Scythia, that is all closed with hills.
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Their dominions were bounded by the Adriatic and the Tigris; and the whole interval of twenty-five days’ navigation, which separated the extreme cold of Scythia from the torrid zone of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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