- The Saka were a
group of
nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who
historically inhabited the
northern and
eastern Eurasian Steppe and the
Tarim Basin. The Sakas...
-
Probably when
around 129 BCE,
nomad peoples,
especially the Indo-Scythians (
Sacaraucae, Old
Persian Sakaravaka "nomadic Saka” or Saraucae) and the Tocharians...
- and the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms.
Eastern Scythian tribes (the Saka, or
Sacaraucae of Gr**** sources)
invaded the
territory around 140 BC, and at some time...
- south-west
towards Parthia. A
tribe known to
ancient Gr****
scholars as the
Sacaraucae (probably from the Old
Persian Sakaravaka, "nomadic Saka") and an allied...
-
nation called Sakastan.
Around 140 BC,
eastern Scythians (the Saka, or
Sacaraucae of Gr**** sources),
apparently being pushed forward by the
southward migration...
- intact) –
three tribes involved in the
conquest of Bactria: the Asiani,
Sacaraucae and
Tochari (i.e. the
Tukhara of
Bactria rather than the so-called Tocharians...
-
Trogus attributed the
destruction of the Greco-Bactrian
state to the
Sacaraucae and the
Asiani "kings of the Tochari". Both
Pompeius and the
Roman historian...
- However, a
majority of
scholars regard Augaloi as a
misrendering of
Sacaraucae. This name may be a
sinicisation of igil, a
Turkic root
meaning "many"...
-
lived along the
upper Syr-darya and may have some
connection to Ptolemy's
Sacaraucae. The
Dahae lived between the
Caspian and Aral Seas. The M****agatae probably...
