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383: 321: 326: 269: 252:, good and bad alike, although he had already been avenged. Then with wisdom and courage he crushed the barbarians—for they had broken forth in great numbers from the district of Lake Maeotis. The Maeotidae, in fact, were flocking together under the pretext of assembling by command of Aurelian for the Persian War, in order that, should necessity demand it, they might render aid to our troops." 282: 424: 367: 468: 448: 417: 229: 17: 463: 410: 360: 259: 205: 458: 353: 163: 179: 176: 101: 39: 443: 8: 63: 398: 341: 333: 83: 453: 171: 248:"His first care after being made emperor was to put to death all who had killed 394: 337: 162:
tribe, were first heard of on the Maeotis, where they were among the allies of
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The marshes served to check the westward migration of nomad peoples from the
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were a tribe of the Maeotes. To the south of the Maeotes, east of the
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near the marshes during his brief reign in 275 and 276.
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which it forms there. The sea was also known as the
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Maeotian marshes
Ancient Greek
Latin
antiquity
swamps
mouth
Tanais River
Scythia
Don
Russia
Sea of Azov
Ancient Greek
Latin
Maeotians
Ixomates
Crimea
Sindes
Sindica
steppe
Central Asia
Iazyges
Sarmatian
Mithridates II of Parthia
Historia Augusta
Roman emperor
Marcus Claudius Tacitus
Alans


"Maeotae" and "Maeotis Palus"

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