سکائستان

معنی کلمه سکائستان

معنی واژه سکائستان

معنیسَکائستان یا سرزمین سکاها ناحیه‌ای بود در اوراسیا که از سدهٔ ۸ پ.م. تا سدهٔ ۲ پس از میلاد محل سکونت قوم ایرانی‌تبار سکا بود. گستره اش در گذر زمان متغیر بود ولی معمولاً محدودهٔ غربی آن گسترده‌تر از آنی است که در نقشهٔ روبرو نشان داده شده.
همین سرزمین است که در «شاهنامه» فردوسی توران خوانده شده و یادی از روزگار کهنتر از زمان نگارش «اوستا» است.

منابع

↑ Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001, p. 25; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press; ISBN 0-674-01130-9 " می‌نویسد: "... از دریای سیاه به سوی شمال تا اقیانوس گسترده بود ..." در زمان بوکاچیو (Boccaccio) دریای بالتیک را اقیانوس سرمتیان (Oceanus Sarmaticus) می‌نامیدند.
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رده‌ها: سکائستان آثار تاریخی اوکراین سکاها

قس عربی

سیثیا (بالیونانیة Σκυθία وباللاتینیة Scythia) هی منطقة فی أوراسیا سکنها السکیثیین من القرن الثامن قبل المیلاد إلى القرن الثانی بعد المیلاد. موقعها ومساحتها تباینت على مر الزمن وعلى العکس مما هو مبین فی الخریطة فانها امتدت غربا أکثر من ما هو مبین فیها.

^ Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001, p. 25; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press; ISBN 0-674-01130-9 ".....extending from the Black Sea in a northerly direction towards Ocean." In Boccaccios time the Baltic Sea was known also as Oceanus Sarmaticus.
هذه المقالة بذرة تحتاج للنمو والتحسین؛ فساهم فی إثرائها بالمشارکة فی تحریرها.
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قس انگلیسی
Scythia (Greek Σκυθία Skuthia, in English pronounced /siθiə/ or /siðiə/) was a region in Eurasia in the classical era, encompassing parts of Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the northern Caucasus. The Scythians inhabited Scythia from the 8th century BC to the 2nd century AD. Its location and extent varied over time but usually extended farther to the west than is indicated on the map opposite.
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Geography

The region known to classical authors as Scythia included:
The Pontic-Caspian steppe: modern-day Ukraine, southern Russia and western Kazakhstan (inhabited by Scythians from at least the 8th century BC)needed
The Kazakh steppe: northern Kazakhstan and the adjacent portions of Russia
Sarmatia, corresponding to parts of southern Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and the eastern Balkans
Saka tigrakhauda, corresponding to parts of Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan, southeastern Kazakhstan and Kashgar
Sakastan, corresponding to southern Afghanistan and eastern Iran, extending to the Sistan Basin
Scythia Minor, corresponding to the lower Danube river area west of the Black Sea, with a part in Romania and a part in Bulgaria
The northern Caucasus area
First Scythian kingdom

In the 7th century BC Scythians penetrated from the territories north of the Black Sea across the Caucasus. The early Scythian kingdoms were dominated by inter-ethnic forms of dependency based on subjugation of agricultural populations in eastern South Caucasia, plunder and taxes (occasionally, as far as Syria), regular tribute (Media), tribute disguised as gifts (Egypt), and possibly also payments for military support (Assyria).needed
It is likely that the same dynasty ruled in Scythia during most of its history. The name of Koloksai, a legendary founder of a royal dynasty, is mentioned by Alcman in the 7th century BC. Prototi and Madis, Scythian kings in the Near Eastern period of their history, and their successors in the north Pontic steppes belonged to the same dynasty. Herodotus lists five generations of a royal clan that probably reigned at the end of the 7th to 6th centuries BC: prince Anacharsis, Saulius, Idanthyrsus, Gnurus, Lycus, and Spargapithes.
After being defeated by the Chinese and driven from the Near East, in the first half of the 6th century BC, Scythians had to re-conquer lands north of the Black Sea. In the second half of that century, Scythians succeeded in dominating the agricultural tribes of the forest-steppe and placed them under tribute. As a result their state was reconstructed with the appearance of the Second Scythian Kingdom which reached its zenith in the 4th century BC.
Second Scythian kingdom

Scythias social development at the end of the 5th century BC and in the 4th century BC involved its privileged stratum in trade with Greeks, efforts to control this trade, and consequences partly stemming from these two: aggressive external policy, intensified exploitation of dependent population, progressing stratification among the nomadic rulers. Trading with Greeks also stimulated sedenterization processes. The proximity of the Greek city-states on the Black Sea coast (Pontic Olbia, Cimmerian Bosporus, Chersonesos, Sindica, Tanais) was a powerful incentive for slavery in the Scythian society, but only in one direction: the sale of slaves to Greeks, instead of use in their economy. Accordingly, the trade become a stimulus for capture of slaves as war spoils in numerous wars.
Scythia at the end of the fifth to third centuries BC


Scythia et Serica, ancient map.
The Scythian state reached its greatest extent in the 4th century BC during the reign of Ateas. Isocrates believed that Scythians, and also Thracians and Persians, are "the most able to power, and are the peoples with the greatest might." In the 4th century BC, under king Ateas, the tribune structure of the state was eliminated, and the ruling power became more centralized. The later sources do not mention three basileuses any more. Strabo tells that Ateas ruled over majority of the North Pontic barbarians.
Written sources tell that expansion of the Scythian state before the 4th century BC was mainly to the west. In this respect Ateas continued the policy of his predecessors in the 5th century BC. During western expansion, Ateas fought the Triballi. A part of Thracians was subjugated and levied with severe duties. During the 90-year life of Ateas, the Scythians settled firmly in Thrace and became an important factor in political games in the Balkans. At the same time, both the nomadic and agricultural Scythian populations increased along the Dniester. A war with the Bosporian Kingdom increased Scythian pressure on the Greek cities along the North Pontic littoral.
Materials from the site near Kamianka-Dniprovska, purportedly the capital of the Ateas’ state, show that metallurgists were free members of the society, even if burdened with imposed obligations. The metallurgy was the most advanced and the only distinct craft speciality among the Scythians. From the story of Polyaenus and Frontin, it follows that in the 4th century BC Scythia had a layer of dependent population, which consisted of impoverished Scythian nomads and local indigenous agricultural tribes, socially deprived, dependent and exploited, who did not participate in the wars, but were engaged in servile agriculture and cattle husbandry.
The year 339 BC was a culminating year for the Second Scythian Kingdom, and the beginning of its decline. The war with Philip II of Macedon ended in a victory by the father of Alexander the Great, the Scythian king Ateas fell in battle well into his nineties. Many royal kurgans (Chertomlyk, Kul-Oba, Aleksandropol, Krasnokut) are dated from after Ateas’s time and previous traditions were continued, and life in the settlements of Western Scythia show that the state survived until the 250s BC. When in 331 BC Zopyrion, Alexanders viceroy in Thrace, "not wishing to sit idle", invaded Scythia and besieged Pontic Olbia, he suffered a crushing defeat from the Scythians and lost his life.
The fall of the Second Scythian Kingdom came about in the second half of the 3rd century BC under the onslaught of Celts and Thracians from the west and Sarmatians from the east. With their increased forces, the Sarmatians devastated significant parts of Scythia and, "annihilating the defeated, transformed a larger part of the country into a desert".
The dependent forest-steppe tribes, subjected to exaction burdens, freed themselves at the first opportunity. The Dnieper and Buh populace ruled by the Scythians did not become Scythians. They continued to live their original life which was alien to Scythian ways. From the 3rd century BC for many centuries the histories of the steppe and forest-steppe zones of North Pontic diverged. The material culture of the populations quickly lost their common features. And in the steppe, reflecting the end of nomad hegemony in Scythian society, the royal kurgans were no longer built. Archeologically, late Scythia appears first of all as a conglomerate of fortified and non-fortified settlements with abutting agricultural zones.
The development of the Scythian society was marked by the following trends:
An intensified settlement process, evidenced by the appearance of numerous kurgan burials in the steppe zone of North Pontic, some of them dated to the end of the 5th century BC, but the majority belonging to the fourth or 3rd centuries BC, reflecting the establishment of permanent pastoral coaching routes and a tendency to semi-nomadic pasturing. The Lower Dnieper area contained mostly unfortified settlements, while in Crimea and Western Scythia the agricultural population grew. The Dnieper settlements developed in what were previously nomadic winter villages, and in uninhabited lands.
Tendency for proprietary and social inequality, ideological ascend of the nobility, further stratification among free Scythian nomads. The majority of royal kurgans are dated from the 4th century BC.
Increase in subjection of the forest-steppe population, archeologically traced. In the 4th century BC in the Dnieper forest-steppe zone, steppe-type burials appear. In addition to the nomadic advance in the north in search of the new pastures, they show an increase of pressure on the farmers of the forest-steppe belt. The Boryspil kurgans belong almost entirely to soldiers and sometimes even women warriors. The bloom of steppe Scythia coincides with decline of forest-steppe. From the second half of the 5th century BC, importing of antique goods to the Middle Dnieper decreased because of pauperization of the dependent farmers. In the forest-steppe, kurgans of the 4th century BC are poorer than during previous times. At the same time, the cultural influence of the steppe nomads grew. The Senkov kurgans in the Kiev area, left by the local agricultural population, are low and contain poor female and no-inventory male burials, in a striking contrast with the nearby Boryspil kurgans of the same era left by the Scythian conquerors.
Beginning of city life in Scythia.
Growth of trade with Northern Black Sea Greek cities, and increase in Hellenization of the Scythian aristocracy. After the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian war, Attican agriculture was ruined. Demosthenes wrote that about 400,000 medimns (63,000 t) of grain was exported annually from the Bosporus to Athens. The Scythian nomadic aristocracy not only served a middleman role, but also actively participated in the trade of grain produced by dependent farmers as well as slaves, skins and other goods.
Scythias later history is mainly dominated by sedentary agrarian and city elements. As a result of the defeats suffered by Scythians two separate states were formed, two Lesser Scythias, one in Thrace (Dobrudja), and the other in the Crimea and the Lower Dnieper area.
Later Scythian kingdoms

Having settled this Scythia Minor in Thrace, the former Scythian nomads (or rather their nobility) abandoned their nomadic way of life, retaining their power over the agrarian population. This little polity should be distinguished from the Third Scythian Kingdom in Crimea and Lower Dnieper area, whose inhabitants likewise underwent a massive sedentarization. The interethnic dependence was replaced by developing forms of dependence within the society. The enmity of the Third Scythian Kingdom, centred on Scythian Neapolis, towards the Greek settlements of the northern Black Sea steadily increased. The Scythian king apparently regarded the Greek colonies as unnecessary intermediaries in the wheat trade with mainland Greece. Besides, the settling cattlemen were attracted by the Greek agricultural belt in Southern Crimea. The later Scythia was both culturally and socio-economically far less advanced than its Greek neighbors such as Olvia or Chersonesos.
The continuity of the royal line is less clear in the Lesser Scythias of Crimea and Thrace than it had been previously. In the 2nd century BC, Olvia became a Scythian dependency. That event was marked in the city by minting of coins bearing the name of the Scythian king Skilurus. He was a son of a king and a father of a king, but the relation of his dynasty with the former dynasty is not known. Either Skilurus or his son and successor Palakus were buried in the mausoleum of Scythian Neapol that was used from ca. 100 BC to ca. 100 AD. However, the last burials are so poor that they do not seem to be royal, indicating a change in the dynasty or royal burials in another place.
Later, at the end of the 2nd century BC, Olvia was freed from the Scythian domination, but became a subject to Mithridates I of Parthia. By the end of the 1st century BC, Olbia, rebuilt after its sack by the Getae, became a dependency of the Dacian barbarian kings, who minted their own coins in the city. Later from the 2nd century AD Olbia belonged to the Roman Empire. Scythia was the first state north of the Black Sea to collapse with the invasion of the Goths in the 2nd century AD (see Oium).
Scythian kings



Scythian king Skilurus, relief from Scythian Neapolis, Crimea, 2nd century BC
Scythia was a loose state that originated as early as 8th century BC. Little is known of them and their rulers. Most detailed description came down to us from Herodotus.
Scylas (ca. 500 BC) – Herodotus describes him as a Scythian whose mother was Greek, he was expelled by his people
Octamasadas (ca. 450 BC) – was put on the throne after Scylas
Ateas (ca. 429–339 BC) – defeated by the Macedonians; his empire fell apart
Skilurus (ca. 125–110 BC) – died during a war against Mithridates VI of Pontus
Palacus (ca. 100 BC) – the last Scythian ruler, defeated by Mithridates
See also

Maeotian marshes
Art & literature

In his later years, Ovid wrote the poems Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto about his exile in Tomis.
Alekseev, A. Yu. et al., "Chronology of Eurasian Scythian Antiquities Born by New Archaeological and 14C Data". Radiocarbon, Vol. 43, No 2B, 2001, pp. 1085–1107.
Khazanov, A.M., Social history of Scythians, Moscow, 1975 (in Russian).
Morgan Llewelyns novel The Horse Goddess is a story of Celts and Scythians.
Wolfgang Jaedtkes German novel Steppenkind, Piper Verlag, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-492-25146-4, describes the life of nomadic Scythians around 700 BC.
Max Overtons novels Lion of Scythia and The Golden King follow the life of a Macedonian officer captured by a Scythian tribe in about 323 BC.
Andrew Birds song, "Scythian Empire", references Scythians.
Hate Forests demo album, Scythia was a black metal album released in 1999.
Christopher Marlowes semi-historical play, Tamburlaine the Great, is based on the life of a Scythian shepherd.
The videogame, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, is set within a fantastical version of Scythia. The nameless protagonist is informally referred to as The Scythian.
References

^ Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001, p. 25; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press; ISBN 0-674-01130-9 ".....extending from the Black Sea in a northerly direction towards Ocean." In Boccaccios time the Baltic Sea was known also as Oceanus Sarmaticus.
^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) Oceanus Sarmaticus
^ Herodotus IV, 76
^ Isocrates 436–338 BC, Panegyricus 67
^ Strabo VII, 3, 18
^ Polyaenus, Stratagems VII, 44, 1
^ Trogus, Prologue, IX
^ Justin, XII, 1, 4
^ Diodorus, 11, 43, 7
^ Strabo VII, 4, 5
External links

An Introductory Bibliography on Scythia (French)
Pyotr O. Karyshkovskij-Ikar Coins of Olbia: Essay of Monetary Circulation of the North-western Black Sea Region in Antique Epoch. Киев, 1988. ISBN 5-12-000104-1.
Bagnall, R., J. Drinkwater, A. Esmonde-Cleary, W. Harris, R. Knapp, S. Mitchell, S. Parker, C. Wells, J. Wilkes, R. Talbert, M. E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel, B. Z. Lund, T. Elliott, S. Gillies. "Places: 991379 (Scythia)". Pleiades. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
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