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Keyword
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Antae, [wurzel: Ant]
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Comment
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The territories of the Saginae are described before that part of the text: between the Crimean peninsular and the area, where the caucasus borders the Black Sea:
"Above the Saginae are settled numerous Hunnic tribes (Ounnikà éthnē) "
And from there onward the country has received the name of Eulysia, and barbarian peoples hold both the coast and the interior of this land, as far as the so called Maeotic Lake and the Tanais River which empties into the lake. And this lake has its outlet at the coast of the Euxine Sea. Now the people who are settled there were named in ancient times Cimmerians (Kimmérioi), but now they are called Utigurs (Outígouroi). And above them to the north the countless tribes of the Antae (Ántai) are settled. But beside the exact point where the outlet of the lake commences dwell the Goths (Gótthoi) who are called Tetraxitae, a people who are not very numerous, but they reverence and observe the rites of the Christians as carefully as any people do.
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Approximate localisation
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SRID=4326;POLYGON ((33.147948 49.44813, 30.370605 49.230513, 30.370605 48.478749, 30.651855 48.081016, 32.11084 47.975215, 34.747557 48.174879, 35.538573 48.80397, 34.870606 49.562278, 33.147948 49.44813))
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Points and lines
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None
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Degree of uncertainty
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7
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Passage
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Ὑπὲρ δὲ Σαγίνας Οὐννικὰ ἔθνη πολλὰ ...; (History of the Wars (530 - 560), 8. 4. 7-9. Dewing (1928) (pp. 84-85)) [4978]
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