Re: Costoboci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- On Fri, 10/23/09, alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
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> > 1. Costoboci was a Dacian Tribe not a Sarmatian one...
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> ****GK: Their location in Pliny's NH. 6.19 hardly proves this, and Pliny identifies the original Costoboci (his source was likely Posidonius, though this is not entirely certain) as Sarmatians.

1. "Sarmatian' was a Generic Name like Scythian too
2. as you said, Pliny made an indirected quotation
3. what about the -dava cities in zone ? where is sarmatian toponomy?

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But the original name was that of a Sarmatian tribe, which must have been dominant at the inception of the complex.*****

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Please quote here the historical sources about this Sarmatian Tribe....


Thanks,
Marius