- The
Maeotic Swamp was the name
formerly given to the
swampy land
surrounding the
Kerch Strait,
which joins the Sea of Azov and the
Black Sea. Wetlands...
- of the
Spartocid civil war that took
place in
winter of 309 BC near the
Maeotic Lake. It was
fought between the
forces of
Prytanis I, who
succeeded his...
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called Utigurs and the
others - Kutrigurs. They
occupied the Tanaitic-
Maeotic (Don-Azov)
steppe zone, the
Kutrigurs in the
Western part and the Utrigurs...
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included Lake
Maeotis or
Maeotius (Mæotius or Mæotis Lacus); the
Maeotian or
Maeotic Sea (Mæotium or Mæoti**** Æquor); the
Cimmerian or
Scythican Swamps (Cimmeriae...
- In
ancient times the low-lying land near the
Strait was
known as the
Maeotic Swamp. The
Cimmerian Bosporus in
ancient times was
regarded as separating...
-
Sittaceni and Dosci,
among others. (Strab. xi. 2. 11). They were
among the
Maeotic tribes whom King
Polemon I of
Pontus and the Bosporus, in the
reign of...
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chieftain of the Kutrigurs. In 551 he came from the "western side of the
Maeotic Lake" to ****ist the
Gepids at the war with
Lombards with 12,000 Kutrigurs...
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shoulder the
heavens studded with
flaming stars. Even now the
Caspian and
Maeotic kingdoms quake at his coming,
oracles sound the
alarm and the
seven mouths...
- Prytanis, but the
latter refused,
leading to his
eventual defeat near the
Maeotic Lake and
death at the Eumelos' hands.
Under Eumelos's reign, the Bosporan...
- leader,
possibly taking Tanais and
subjugating many
tribes around the
Maeotic Swamp and
expanding the
kingdom more than his
father did in the Bosporan...
