From: george knysh
Message: 20121
Date: 2003-03-20
> George wrote*****GK: Scythopolis doesn't enter history under its
>
> > GK: If you mean Zopirion, then no. Zopirion
> was
> > Alexander's general in Thrace. In 331 BC he
> attempted
> > to conquer Olbia. His army (numbering 30,000+) was
> > completely annihilated by the Scythians.== If you
> mean
> > the Scythians, then yes. The last significant
> "royal"
> > tomb of classical Scythia was recently excavated
> by a
> > consortium of Polish and Ukrainian archaeologists.
> It
> > is located fairly close to Kyiv, and dated ca.
> 275-->
> > BC. In the period 275-225 BC the Sarmatians
> (Iazygi
> > and Roxolani)wiped out most of the Scythians of
> > Eastern Ukraine, while most of those who resided
> in
> > Western Ukraine (led by the Auchata/Aratores)
> migrated
> > to the Dobrudja, founding one of the two Scythian
> > successor kingdoms known (acc. to Strabo) as
> Little
> > Scythia. Since these migrants were preponderantly
> > Thrakoid-speakers, their integration into the
> local
> > population south of the Danube was rather swift.
> And
> > lest I forget, there was also a migrant group
> which
> > sought (and received) asylum from King Ptolemy.
> They
> > founded Scythopolis near the Jordan r.******
>
> I thought Scythopolis (Beth Shean) was named by the
> Greeks after the
> Scythians that had been settled there by Esarhaddon,
> after his
> invasion of Egypt (using Scythian mercenaries).
>
> Regards
>
> John
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