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Skythians

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A group

Names

  • Armenian: Սկիւթացւոց = Skiwt‘ats‘wots‘ 1
  • Greek: Σκύθαι, Σκυθῶν, Σκύθαις, Σκύθας = Skythai, Skythōn, Skythais, Skythas 2-3
  • Syriac: ܣܩ̈ܘܬܝܐ = SQWTYʾ 4

Attributes

  • Group

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ohannē T‘mok‘uets‘i.1 1442144214421955
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Event mentioned by Georgios Amiroutzes.3 before 14701464-1470mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 603a I: pp. 532-534 [Armenian].
    • Skiwt‘ac‘woc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1442 (no. 1) [English].
  • 2Skythians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.9-10, 16, 34; 2.16-17, 22, 48; 3.18, 21-28, 32-38, 49, 53, 60, 70; 6.3-5, 54; 7.5; 8.72; 10.16 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Skythians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.36 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 18 [Syriac].
    • Scythes: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 32, 89, 173, 259, 304; II, 5 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Skythians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13602.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
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