Scythians were an ancient Aryan equestrian nomadic people led by a warrior aristocracy known as the Royal Scythians who primarily lived in the region corresponding to modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, which was known as Scythia after them, and who dominated the territory of the Eurasian Steppe from approximately the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
Scythian tribes and possible descendents
Sarmatians:
In the first century AD, the Sarmatians began encroaching upon the Roman Empire in alliance with Germanic tribes. In the third century AD, their dominance of the Pontic Steppe was broken by the Germanic Goths. With the Hunnic invasions of the fourth century, many Sarmatians joined the Goths and other Germanic tribes (Vandals) in the settlement of the Western Roman Empire.
Ossetians:
are indigenous to Ossetia, a region situated across the northern and southern sides of the Caucasus Mountains. They natively speak Ossetic, an Eastern Iranian language of the Indo-European language family, with most also being fluent in Russian as a second language. Ossetic, a remnant of the Scytho-Sarmatian dialect group which was once spoken across the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, is one of the few Iranian languages remaining inside Europe.
Gelae:
were a Scythian tribe mentioned by Strabo and other ancient writers as living on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, in what is now the Iranian province of Gilan. The name of the province is possibly derived from the Gelae.
Gaels:
are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man in the British Isles. They are associated with the Gaelic languages: a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic.
Legae:
was a people on the shores of the Caspian Sea that mythology places between Albania and the country of the Amazons, Scythian roots. Its name survives today in the village of the Lezgins(tats?) who live in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan.
Spali:
was an ancient tribe mentioned in classical geography that inhabited the south of Russia.Pliny (fl. 77-79) enumerated a group of tribes through which the Don River (Tanais) crossed, in which the Spalaei are last mentioned
Saka:
were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples who historically inhabited the northern and eastern Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin
The Sakas were closely related to the European Scythians, and both groups formed part of the wider Scythian cultures
Early Slavs:
The first written use of the name "Slavs" dates to the 6th century, when the Slavic tribes inhabited a large portion of Central and Eastern Europe. By then, the nomadic Iranian-speaking ethnic groups living on the Eurasian Steppe (the Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans etc.) had been absorbed by the region's Slavic-speaking population.
Cossacks:
are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the steppes of Ukraine and Don Cossacks of Russia. They were a semi-nomadic and semi-militarized people, who, while under the nominal suzerainty of various Eastern European states at the time, were allowed a great degree of self-governance in exchange for military service. The Cossacks were particularly noted for holding democratic traditions.
so yeah scythians are pretty much the ancestors of some Germans some Magyars (Hungarians), posibly all Slavs and Celts, entire groups of iranic speakers, and maybe even some indians.....
Негізгі бет Scythia - (music set to Scyhtian imagery)
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