Scythia

Mountains and flows right through Europe till it empties its waters into the Black Sea, giving us a long and detailed account of a country he calls Scythia (Russia) with many rivers flowing into this same Black

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

It was the customary style of polite letter-writing in Scythia at that period, the Scythians being in just that stage of barbarism which the Persians, the Egyptians, and the other great nations of the East had left behind and forgotten.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph and a Russian conqueror.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph [140] and a Russian conqueror.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

Some think they find them afar off, in Scythia, Tartary, and Russia.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Scythia is about one hundred and ten degrees, which, in that parallel, are equal to more than five thousand miles.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the Barbarians.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

And toward the sea Ocean in Ind is the kingdom of Scythia, that is all closed with hills.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Their dominions were bounded by the Adriatic and the Tigris; and the whole interval of twenty-five days’ navigation, which separated the extreme cold of Scythia from the torrid zone of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206