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    The Massagetae or Massageteans, also known as Sakā tigraxaudā or Orthocorybantians, were an ancient Eastern Iranian Saka people who inhabited the steppes...
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    Tomyris (category Massagetae)
    the Greek historian Herodotus. According to him, she reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian Saka people of Central Asia. Tomyris led her armies to defend...
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  • film directed by Akan Satayev, which tells the story of the queen of the Massagetae, Tomyris, and the Persian king, Cyrus the Great. The film co-stars Almira...
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    the Massagetae and the Dahae. The scholars A. Abetekov and H. Yusupov have also suggested that the Dahā were a constituent tribe of the Massagetae. The...
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    co-ruler in 530 BC. His father then set off on an expedition against the Massagetae of Central Asia, where he met his end. Cambyses thus became the sole ruler...
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  • Herodotus in his History (IV.16-25) and by Ptolemy in his Geography. Like the Massagetae to the south, the Issedones are described by Herodotus as similar to,...
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    generally regarded as part of the Sarmatians, and possibly related to the Massagetae. Modern historians have connected the Alans with the Central Asian Yancai...
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  • of Tomyris (Eastern Iranian: تهم‌رییش Tahm-Rayiš), an ancient Iranian Massagetae queen from Central Asia. Tomris Giritlioğlu, a Turkish film director....
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    𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎧𐎢𐎭𐎠) – "Sakā who wear pointed caps," who were also known as the Massagetae. the Sakā haumavargā (𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐏃𐎢𐎶𐎺𐎼𐎥𐎠) – interpreted as "Sakā...
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    by Herodotus. The root was also used for the Tyragetae, Thyssagetae, Massagetae, and others. Strabo, one of the first ancient sources to mention Getae...
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    every nation without exception"; Cyrus allegedly died in battle with the Massagetae, a nomadic Eastern Iranian tribal confederation, along the Syr Darya in...
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    Complex Saka Andronovo culture Tagar culture Uyuk culture Pazyryk culture Massagetae Median Empire Achaemenid Empire Macedonian Empire Seleucid Empire Greco-Bactrian...
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    era. In antiquity, various nomadic Iranian peoples such as the Saka, Massagetae, and Scythians dominated the territory, with the Achaemenid Persian Empire...
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    Scythian, Sauromatian and Sarmatian cultures of Eastern Europe, the Saka-Massagetae and Tasmola cultures of Central Asia, and the Aldy-Bel, Pazyryk and Tagar...
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    BC include the Alans, the Bactrians, the Dahae, the Khwarazmians, the Massagetae, the Medes, the Parthians, the Persians, the Sagartians, the Sakas, the...
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    inhabited by many different tribes: […] beyond the Caspian Gulf - Mosquitoes, Massagetae […] and where the country approaches our seas - Matians, Tibarans and...
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    Complex Saka Andronovo culture Tagar culture Uyuk culture Pazyryk culture Massagetae Median Empire Achaemenid Empire Macedonian Empire Seleucid Empire Greco-Bactrian...
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    officials. -500 SAKAS Tasmola Kulay Goro- khovo Itkul Sargat Ananyino culture Massagetae Sauro- matians Mumun Dian culture SABEANS Ordos culture Sha- jing Pazyryk...
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    allied people, the Massagetae, came into conflict with the Parthian Empire in Parthia between 138 and 124 BCE. The Sacaraucae-Massagetae alliance won several...
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  • another nomadic Iranian tribe closely related to the Scythians, either the Massagetae or the Issedones, migrated westwards, forcing the Early Scythians to the...
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    incursions by various nomadic tribes, including the Sakas, the Yuezhi, and the Massagetae. Each time, the Arsacid dynasts responded personally, doing so even when...
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    Cyrus the Great also. He accompanied Cyrus on his expedition against the Massagetae. However, he was sent back to Persis to keep watch over his eldest son...
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    Common Era (The Migration Period). The populous Sarmatian tribe of the Massagetae, dwelling near the Caspian Sea, were known to the early rulers of Persia...
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    Simmias of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC connected the Hyperboreans to the Massagetae and Posidonius in the 1st century BC to the Western Celts, but Pomponius...
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    Iranian language, such as Scythian or Sarmatian, like the neighbouring Massagetae (on the north-east shores of the Caspian). The 15th Century chronicler...
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    based upon the historical figure of Tomyris, a violent and uncompromising Massagetae queen. Eugene M. Waith suggests that the name of Tamora's son, Alarbus...
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    Spargapises (category Massagetae)
    Kullanda 2014, p. 81. Schmitt 2003. Schmitt 2011. Schmitt, Rüdiger (2018). "MASSAGETAE". Encyclopædia Iranica. Gera 2018. Rollinger 2003. Mayor 2017. Mayor 2014...
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  • southeastern Europe DMP · 589 590 Tomyris 1906 TO Tomyris, Scythian Queen of the Massagetae DMP · 590 591 Irmgard 1906 TP Unknown origin of name. Irmgard is a common...
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  • MACEDONIAN EMPIRE NANDA EMPIRE ZHOU DYNASTY MEROË Scythians Sauro- matians Massagetae Dahae ◁ ▷ General location of the Subeshi culture, next to the Saka realm...
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    Antiquity Ancient history Jeitun culture Gonur Depe Oxus civilization Massagetae Median Empire Achaemenid Empire Seleucid Empire Greco-Bactrian Kingdom...
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