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indo-scythiansThe (also called Indo-Sakas) a group of nomadic people of Iranic Scythian origin who migrated from Central Asia southward into the northwestern Indian subcontinent: the present-day South Asian regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Eastern Iran and northern India.
sakanounA town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
dahaeThe Dahae, also known as the Daae, Dahas or Dahaeans (Persian: ) were an ancient Eastern Iranian nomadic tribal confederation, who inhabited the steppes of Central Asia.
scythian religionThe Scythian religion refers to the mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the Scythian cultures, a collection of closely related ancient Iranian peoples who inhabited Central Asia and the Pontic–Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe throughout Classical Antiquity, spoke the Scythian language (itself a member of the Eastern Iranian language family), and which included the Scythians proper, the Cimmerians, the Sarmatians, the Alans, the Sindi, the Massagetae and the Saka.
kipchaksThe Kipchaks or Qipchaqs, also known as Kipchak Turks or Polovtsians, were Turkic nomads and then a confederation that existed in the Middle Ages inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe.
sabir peopleThe Sabirs (Savirs, Suars, Sawar, Sawirk among others; ,) were a nomadic Turkic equestrian people who lived in the north of the Caucasus beginning in the late-5th–7th century, on the eastern shores of the Black Sea, in the Kuban area, and possibly came from Western Siberia.
agathyrsian ancient people belonging to the Scythian cultures who lived in the Transylvanian Plateau, in the region that later became Dacia.
taurinoun(historical) An ancient people who inhabited the Crimean Mountains.
aorsiThe Aorsi, known in Greek sources as the Aorsoi, were an ancient Iranian people of the Sarmatian group, who played a major role in the events of the Pontic Steppe from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.
alchon hunsThe Alchon Huns, (Bactrian: Alkhon(n)o or Alkhan(n)o) also known as the Alkhan, Alchono, Alxon, Alkhon, Alakhana, and Walxon, were a nomadic people who established states in Central Asia and South Asia during the 4th and 6th centuries CE.
scythianoun(historical) A geographic region encompassing the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, inhabited by nomadic Scythians from at least the 11th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.
roxolaninoun(historical) A Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Dnieper, and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia.
eurasian nomadsEurasian nomads form groups of nomadic peoples who have lived in various areas of the Eurasian Steppe.
cimmeriansan ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia.
phrygiansThe (Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity.
nomadic empireNomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, were the empires erected by the bow-wielding, horse-riding, nomadic people in the Eurasian Steppe, from classical antiquity (Scythia) to the early modern era (Dzungars).
scythian languagesThe (or or ) a group of Eastern Iranic languages of the classical and late antique period (the Middle Iranic period), spoken in a vast region of Eurasia by the populations belonging to the Scythian cultures and their descendants.
hephthalitesThe Hephthalites, sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Prakrit as the Sveta-huna), were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of Eastern Iranian Huns.
sogdianounSynonym of Sogdiana (“ancient Iranian-speaking civilization”).
bulgarsThe (also Bulghars, Bulgari, Bolgars, Bolghars, Bolgari, Proto-Bulgarians) Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourished in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and the Volga region between the 5th and 7th centuries.

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