Sindi people
The Sindi (
History
Ciscaucasia
Kingdom of Sindica | |||||||||
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| c. 8th century BC–c. 380 BC | |||||||||
| Common languages | Scythian Maeotian Ancient Greek | ||||||||
| Religion | Scythian religion Maeotian religion Ancient Greek religion | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
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| Historical era | Iron Age Scythian culture | ||||||||
• Scythian retreat from Ciscaucasia | c. 8th century BC | ||||||||
• Conquest by the Bosporan Kingdom | c. 380 BC | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Southern Russia | ||||||||
The Sindi were a tribe of the
As the Scythians lost more territory in Ciscaucasia to the
The Kingdom of Sindica existed for over 400 years, and it was after annexed by the Bosporan Kingdom.[2]
Central Europe
Unlike the majority of the Sindi, who remained in the northern Caucasus, a smaller section of the Sindi migrated westwards and settled into the Hungarian Plain as part of the expansion of the Scythian into Central Europe during the 7th to 6th centuries BC, and they soon lost contact with the Scythians who remained in the Pontic Steppe. The 3rd century BC Greek author Apollonius of Rhodes located a population of the Sindi living alongside the Sigynnae and the otherwise unknown Grauci in the "plain of Laurion", which is likely the eastern part of the Pannonian Basin.[3][4][1]
Archaeology
North Caucasus
The Scythian ruling class in the Maeotian country initially buried their dead in kurgans while the native Maeotian populace were buried in flat cemeteries. Burials in Sindica continued this tradition, and members of the Sindi ruling class continued being buried in kurgans while the Maeotians continued to be buried in flat graves.[2]
After earlier Scythian earthworks built in the 6th century BC along the right bank of the Kuban river were abandoned in the 4th century BC, when the Sauromatians took over most of Ciscaucasia, the Sindi built a new series of earthworks on their eastern borders. One of the Sindi earthworks was located at Yelizavetinskaya, where was located a c. 400 BC kurgan in which several humans were buried and which contained the skeletons of 200 horses.[2]
References
Citations
- ^ a b Olbrycht 2000.
- ^ a b c d e Sulimirski & Taylor 1991, pp. 568–573.
- ^ Sulimirski 1985, pp. 191–193.
- ISBN 978-0-198-14936-1.
Sources
- Olbrycht, Marek Jan (2000). "Remarks on the Presence of Iranian Peoples in Europe and Their Asiatic Relations". Collectanea Celto-Asiatica Cracoviensia. ISBN 978-8-371-88337-8.
- ISBN 978-1-139-05493-5.
- ISBN 978-1-139-05429-4.
- Trubachov, Oleg N., 1999: Indoarica, Nauka, Moscow.
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