- antiquity, the sea was
known as the
Maeotis Swamp (Gr****: Μαιῶτις λίμνη, hē Maiōtis límnē; Latin:
Palus Maeotis), from the
marshlands to its northeast...
- Μαιῶτις λίμνη, hē Maiōtis límnē,
literally Maeotian Lake; Latin:
Palus Maeotis) was a name
applied in
antiquity variously to the
swamps at the
mouth of...
- Azov,
which was
known in
antiquity as the "Maeotian marshes" or "Lake
Maeotis". The
etymology of the name and the
identity of the
people remain unclear...
- in the east, the
Caucasus in the south, and
Cimmerian Bosphorus,
Palus Maeotis and
Tanais in the west. It
included the
mountains of Coraxici, Hippici...
-
Thyssagetae flowed into the
Maeotis (Sea of Azov), he
appears to have been mistaken. He may have
confused the
Caspian Sea with the
Maeotis, as one of the rivers...
-
century AD,
first east of the
Borysthenes (Dnieper) on the
coast of Lake
Maeotis (Sea of Azov), and
later near the
borders of
Roman Dacia and Moesia. They...
- Koiné Gr**** pronunciation, Crimni, i.e., "the Cliffs", a port on Lake
Maeotis (Sea of Azov)
cited by
Herodotus in The
Histories 4.20.1 and 4.110.2)....
- westwards, away from the
steppes and from
their original home
around Lake
Maeotis, and into the
Carpathian region.
Beginning in the late 4th
century BC,...
- The
Battle of Lake
Maeotis was a
military engagement of the
Spartocid civil war that took
place in
winter of 309 BC near the
Maeotic Lake. It was fought...
-
northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov,
which the
Ancient Gr****s
called Lake
Maeotis. The site of
ancient Tanais is
about 30 km west of
modern Rostov-on-Don...
