General Notes

Scythia, name given by the ancient Greeks after about 800 bc to the homeland of the Scythians in the southeast part of Europe, eastward from the Carpathian Mountains to the Don River; this region was seized by the Sarmatians in the 4th century bc and became known as Sarmatia. The name Scythia was sometimes applied by ancient geographers to the greater part of southeastern Europe and Central Asia, from the Danube River to the mountains of Turkistan.

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