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| indo-scythians | The (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. |
| sakanoun | A town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. |
| dahae | The 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 religion | The 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. |
| kipchaks | The 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 people | The 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. |
| agathyrsi | an 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. |
| aorsi | The 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 huns | The 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 nomads | Eurasian nomads form groups of nomadic peoples who have lived in various areas of the Eurasian Steppe. |
| cimmerians | an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia. |
| phrygians | The (Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity. |
| nomadic empire | Nomadic 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 languages | The (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. |
| hephthalites | The 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. |
| sogdianoun | Synonym of Sogdiana (“ancient Iranian-speaking civilization”). |
| bulgars | The (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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