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ΣΚΥΘΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΡΩΣΙΑ
Ascatancas (Askatankas), a mountain range of Asia, forming a part
of the E. boundary which divided the land of the Sacae from Scythia. Extending,
apparently, NW. and SE., it joined, at its SE. extremity, the branch of M. Imaus
which ran N. and S., according to Ptolemy, at a point which he defines as the
halting-place (hormeterion) of the caravans on their way to Sera, and which he
places in 140° Ion. and 43° lat. (vi. 13. § 1). Now, following Ptolemy's
latitude, which is seldom far wrong, and the direction of the roads, which are
pretty well defined by nature where great mountains have to be crossed, we can
hardly be far wrong in placing Ptolemy's caravanserai at the spot marked by the
rock-hewn monument called Takhti-Souleiman (i. e. Solomon's Throne), near Och,
in a lateral valley of the upper Jaxartes (Sihoun),- which is still an important
commercial station, from its position at the N. foot of the pass of Terek over
the great Moussour range, Ptolemy's N. branch of the Imaus. The Ascatancas might
then answer to the Alatau M. or the Khouhakhai M.; and the more northerly Anarei
M. of Ptolemy might be the Khaltai or Tschingis; both NW. branches of the Moussour
range: but it is, of course, impossible to make the identification with any certainty.
Ammianus Marcellinus (xxiii. 6) appears to refer to the same mountains by the
name of Ascanimia. (Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. i. p. 513; Heeren, Ideen, i. 2, p.
487; Forbiger, vol. ii. p. 469.)
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Baltia. Three days' sail from the coast of Scythia lay an island of
immense magnitude, called Baltia; this being the name which Pliny found in Xenophon
of Lampsacus. Pytheas, on the other hand, called it Basilia. (Plin. xxxvii. 7.
s. 11.)
Whatever may be the uncertainties as to the exact geographical position
of the ancient Baltia, the word itself is important as being the origin of our
term Baltic. Little less certain is its Slavonic or Lithuanian origin, since so
little is it German that, except in England, the usual name for the Baltic, amongst
the Gothic nations, is the East-Sea. This helps us in certain points of criticism.
In the first place, it suggests an explanation of the ambiguities of the early
writers, who took their names from two sources. If Baltia was Slavonic, the name
Ostiaioi (Eastmen), who dwelt on its coast, was German. Yet each is found in Pytheas.
Hence the likelihood of two names to the same locality, and the confusion arising
therefrom. Again, the fact of the name being strange to the present Germans makes
the assumption of an erroneous application of it all the more likely. Name for
name, nothing represents the ancient Baltia so closely as the Great and the Little
Belts between the Danish isles and Jutland. But these are the names of straits
of water, not of islands of land. Yet the present writer believes that the Baltia
of Pytheas was the island of Fyen or Sealand (one or both), and that the name
Baltia is retained in that of the waters that bound them. He would not, however,
believe this, if there had been no change in language. Had that been uniform from
the beginning, the confusion which he assumes would have been illegitimate.
Another speculation connects itself with the root Balt-. In the article
Avari, a principle which will bear a wide application has been suggested. It is
as follows: when the name of a non-historical individual coincides with that of
an historical population (or locality), the individual is to be considered as
an eponymus. Now, the legends of the country of the Getae connected them with
the Guttones of the Baltic; indeed, when the name Goth became prominent, the original
seat of the stock was laid on that sea, sometimes on the southern coast in the
amber-country, sometimes as far north as Scandinavia. More than this, the two
royal lines were those of the Balt-ungs (Baltidae), and the Amal-ungs (Amalidae).
For a Balt, or an Amal, as real personages, we look in vain. Populations, however,
to which they were Eponymi, we find in the two localities Baltia and Abalus-associated
localities in the accredited mother-country.
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Oxii Montes (ta Oxeia ore, Ptol. vi. 12. § § 1, 4), a chain of mountains between the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes, in a direction from SW. to NE., and which separated Scythia from Sogdiana. They are identified with the metalliferous group of Asferah and Aktagh-the Botom, Botm, or Botam ( Mont Blanc) of Edrisi (ed, Jaubert, vol. ii. pp. 198-200). The Oxi Rupes of Strabo (Oxou petra p. 517), which he also calls the hill-fort of Arimazes (Q. Curt. vii. 11), has been identified by Droysen, as quoted by Thirlwall (Hist. of Greece, vol. vi. p. 300), with the pass of Kolugha or Derbend, in the Kara-tagh, between Kish and Hissar; but as it is called the rock of the Oxus it must be looked for on that river, and is probably Kurghan-Tippa on the Amu. (Wilson, Ariana, p. 167; Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. vii. p. 734; Humboldt, Asie Centrale, vol. ii. pp. 18-20.)
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Tapuri montes a chain of mountains, in Scythia, to the N. of the Jaxartes, apparently
a portion of the Altai range, towards its western extremity (Ptol vi. 14. § 7).
It may, however, be doubted whether this view of Ptolemy is really correct. It
would seem more likely that they are connected with the Tapuri, a tribe who nearly
adjoined the Hyrcani [Tapuri]; and this a notice in Polybius would appear clearly
to imply (v. 44).
ΤΑΝΑΪΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΣΚΥΘΙΑ
Ποταμός της Σκυθίας, όπου υπήρχε ομώνυμη πόλη.
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ΤΑΥΡΙΣ (Χερσόνησος) ΣΚΥΘΙΑ
Symbolon Portus (Sumtholon limen, Ptol. iii. 6. § 2; Sumbulou limen,
Arrian, Per. Pont. Eux. p. 20), a harbour with a narrow entrance on the S. coast
of the Chersonesus Taurica, between the town of Chersonesus and the port of Cienus.
In ancient times it was the chief station for the pirates of the Tauric peninsula.
(Strab. vii. p. 309; Plin. iv. 12. s. 26; Anon. Per. Pont. Eux. p. 6.) Now the
port of Balaklava. (Comp. Clarke's Travels, ii. p. 398; Pallas, ii. p. 128.)
Taphrae or Taphros (Taphrai, Steph. B. p. 642; cf. Mela, ii. 1; Plin.
iv. 12. s. 26; Taphros, Ptol. iii. 6. § 5), that part of the neck of the Chersonesus
Taurica which was cut through by a dyke and fortified (Herod. iv. 3). Pliny and
Ptolemy (ll. cc.) mention a town called Taphrae; and Strabo (vii. 308) also notices
at this spot a people called Taphrioi. (Cf. D'Anville, Mem de l'Ac. d. Inscr.
xxxvii. p. 581; Rennell, Geogr. of Herod. p. 96; Mannert, iv. p. 291.) Perecop,
or Prezecop, the modern name of the isthmus, also signifies in Russian a ditch
or entrenchment. (Clarke, Trav. ii. p. 316.)
Lampas, a harbour on the E. coast of the Tauric Chersonese, 800 stadia from Theodosia, and 220 stadia from Criu-Metopon. (Arrian, Peripl. p. 20; Anon. Peripl. p. 6.) Arrian uses the two names Lampas and Halmitis as if they belonged to the same place, but the Anonymous Coast-describer speaks of Lampas alone. Halmitis probably took its name from being a place for salting fish. The name is preserved in the places now called Biouk-Lambat and Koutchouk-Lambat, Tartar villages at the end of a bay defended by the promontory of Plaka, near which ancient ruins have been found. (Dubois de Montpereux, Voyage actour du Caucase, vol. v. p. 713, vol. vi. p. 460; Rennell, Compar. Geog. vol. ii. p. 340.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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