The hordes of the Huns had poured forth all the way from Maeotis ( they had their haunts between the icy Tanais and the rude Massagetae, " where the gates of Alexander keep back the wild peoples behind the Caucasus " ).
22.
:" The hordes of the Huns had poured forth all the way from Maeotis ( they had their haunts between the icy Tanais and the rude Massagetae, where the gates of Alexander keep back the wild peoples behind the Caucasus )"
23.
The Bosporan Kingdom covered the eastern half of Crimea and the Taman peninsula, and extended along the east coast of the Maeotian marshes to Tanais at the mouth of the Don in the north-east, a great market for trade with the interior.
24.
Early on, the Europe Asia boundary was taken to run from the Black Sea along the Rioni River ( known then as the " Phasis " ) in Don River ( known then as the " Tanais " ) in Russia.
25.
*The section discusses a boundary between Europe and Asia that follows Ural mountains, Samara river, Volga river, jumps from Volga to Don ( Tanais ) around 49 degrees of latitude, and then goes down the Don River to the Black Sea.
26.
Virgil wrote in his poem that Dryads wept from Epirus and Hebrus up to the land of the Getae ( north east Danube valley ) and even describes him wandering into Hyperborea and Tanais ( ancient Greek city in the Don river delta ) due to his grief.
27.
In the seventh century, Isidore of Seville produced a " wheel map " in which Asia, Africa and Europe were arranged like segments in an orange, separated by the " Mare Mediterranean ", " Nilus " and " Tanais " and surrounded by " Oceanus ".
28.
The personal names on the Tanais Tablets are considered as a proto-type of a certain ethnonym of a Sarmatian tribe those persons did descend from, and as well today is generally accepted that the Croatian name is of Iranian origin and that can be traced to the Tanains Tablets.
29.
Common theories from the 20th century derive it from an Iranian origin, the root word being a third-century Scytho-Sarmatian form attested in the Tanais Tablets as ???????? ( " Khoro�thos ", alternate forms comprise " Khor�atos " and " Khoro�athos " ).
30.
In the initial stanzas of the poem Asagarth is the capital of Asaland, a section of Asia to the east of the Tana-kv�sl or Vana-Kv�sl river ( kv�sl is " fork " ), which Snorri explains is the Tanais, or Don River, flowing into the Black Sea.
