The Dosci (Doschi) - were an ancient people dwelling along the
Palus Maeotis
The Maeotian Swamp or Maeotian Marshes ( grc, ἡ Μαιῶτις λίμνη, ''hē Maiōtis límnē'', literally ''Maeotian Lake''; la, Palus Maeotis) was a name applied in antiquity variously to the swamps at the mouth of the Tanais River in Scy ...
in antiquity.
Strabo describes them as living among the
Maeotae
The Maeotians (; grc, Μαιῶται, translit=Maiōtai; la, Maeōtae) were an ancient people dwelling along the Sea of Azov, which was known in antiquity as the " Maeotian marshes" or "Lake Maeotis".James, Edward Boucher"Maeotae" and "Maeoti ...
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* Sindi, Estonia, a town in Pärnu County, Estonia
* Sindi, Maharashtra, a town and municipal council in Wardha District, Maharashtra, India
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Dandarii,
Toreatae,
Agri
Agri may refer to:
Places
* Ağrı Province, eastern Turkey
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Arrechi,
Tarpetes
The Tarpetes were an ancient people who once lived along the Maeotian marshes Palus Maeotis, in present-day Russia. The Tarpetes were one of many groups in that area that vanished, leaving little or no trace. Strabo describes them living among the ...
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Obidiaceni,
Sittaceni, and
Aspurgiani, among others.
Dosci (Doschi) is one of the Maeotae tribes, who lived in the 1st millennium BC on the east and south-east coast of the
Azov sea
The Sea of Azov ( Crimean Tatar: ''Azaq deñizi''; russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; uk, Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about ) Strait of Kerch, ...
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Russian scientists, archeologists, historians and ethnographers in the Soviet period concluded that Maeotae is one of the names of the tribes of the
Adyghe people
The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia ...
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Circassians
The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia ...
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In the ''
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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'', in the article about the
Adyghe people
The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia ...
, it says:
Living in the basin of the river Kuban part of the tribes (Adyg people), as a rule, be indicated (names) of ancient historians under the collective name "Maeotae".
Maeotae were engaged in farming and fishing. Part of the Maeotae by the language was akin to the Adygs (Circassians), the part of the Iranians. In the 4th–3rd centuries BC, many of Maeotae were included in the
Bosporan Kingdom
The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (, ''Vasíleio toú Kimmerikoú Vospórou''), was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporu ...
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Меоты
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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References
Strabo's book 11 on-line
Ancient peoples of Russia
Ancient Circassian tribes
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