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The Legae (Latin legae Greek Λῆγαι) were a people on the shores of the Caspian Sea that mythology places between Albania and the country of the Amazons, Scythian roots. The name survives today in the village of the Lezgins, who live in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan.[1]
Strabo referring to
Ptolemy in Geography (Book VI) identifies the Cadusii and Legae, and places the Gelae to the north. Comparing all the fragments that have come down, Kai Brodersen suggests that in Pliny's text the word "legae" could have disappeared when copied. That is, the original fragment was read as gelae, legae - which the Greeks called Cadusii.[3]
Lezgi people ”. According to the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, published in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, varnishes (that is, the Laks) are “classic legi (Λήγες), at the end of the 8th century. They were conquered by the Arab commander Abumuslim, who established Islam among them and gave their country to be ruled by one of the descendants of the prophet, Shah-Baal, who received the title of shamkhal and wali (that is, governor) of Dagestan ”.[4]
References
- Legae
- William Scott Shelley / Soma and the Indo-European Priesthood: Cereal Cultivation and the Origins of Religion
- Sundeep S. Jhutti / The Getes
- Emanuel Kanter / The Amazons: A Marxian Study
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Volume 2
- William Smith / Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Notes
- ^ "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LABANAE AQUAE, LAURI, LEGAE". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ Васильевна, Тревер, Камилла (1959-01-01). Очерки по истории и культуре Кавказской Албании: IV в. до н.э.- VII в. н.э. (in Russian). АН СССР, Москва-Ленинград.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ISBN 978-3-7608-1586-2.
- ISBN 978-5-9989-7643-8.
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