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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: Μικρα Σκυθια, romanized: Mikra Skuthia; Latin: Scythia Minor) was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 3rd century BCE in...
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    Crimea (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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  • Scythia Minor (Ancient Greek: Μικρα Σκυθια, 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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  • Scythia (Scythian: Skulatā; Old Persian: 𐎿𐎤𐎢𐎭𐎼 Skudra; Ancient Greek: Σκυθια Skuthia; Latin: Scythia) or Scythica (Ancient Greek: Σκυθικη Skuthikē;...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Dobruja region started being called "Little Scythia" (Ancient Greek: Μικρα Σκυθια; Latin: Scythia Minor). Although Ateas had united the Scythian tribes...
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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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  • 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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    names altogether. In Lower Moesia (the present Northern Bulgaria) and Scythia minor (Dobrudja): Aedeba, *Buteridava, *Giridava, Dausadava, Kapidaua, Murideba...
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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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    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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    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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  • Byzantine general, active early in the reign of Justinian I (r. 527–565) in Scythia Minor (modern Dobruja). The historian Patrick Amory considers the name Baduarius...
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    Histria (ancient city) (category Greek colonies in Scythia Minor)
    of Histria (c. 62–61 BC) was fought between the Bastarnae peoples of Scythia Minor and the Roman Consul Gaius Antonius Hybrida, Governor of Macedonia....
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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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    traces might have been preserved in modern Bulgarians (and Macedonians). Scythia Minor and Moesia Inferior appear to have been Romanized, although the region...
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    the same time, Moesia Inferior was divided into Moesia Secunda and Scythia Minor. Moesia Secunda's main cities included Marcianopolis (Devnya), Odessus...
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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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    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 metropolis. After the 5th century, Tomis fell under...
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    Tropaensium was a Roman city situated in the Roman province of Moesia (later Scythia Minor) near modern Adamclisi in Constanța County, Romania. The Battle of Adamclisi...
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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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    Moesian Limes and Scythia Minor...
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    the Greek city as Scythia. However, the toponym Μικρά Σκυθία (Mikra Skythia), usually translated as Scythia Minor or Lesser Scythia appears to have become...
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