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Rha
(112 words)
[German version] (Ῥᾶ/
Rhâ, Ptol. 5,8,6 ff.; 6,14,1; 4;
Ra, Amm. Marc. 22,8,27 ff.; modern Volga). Name of Finnish origin; in Scythian and Greek, the river was called Oarus in the 6th cent. BC (Ὄαρος/
Óaros, Hdt. 4,123 f.). Early in time, the Greek geographers already had a vague knowledge of the R. They thought it flowed into the Maeotis. Around the turn of the 1st cent. AD, the R. became known to Roman geographers: Marinus [1] (and Ptolemy) drafted a surprisingly accurate cartographical picture of the river. The extensive Volga …
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Brill’s New Pauly
Cercetae
(97 words)
[German version] (Κερκέται;
Kerkétai). Tribe on the north-eastern coast of the Pontus Euxinus on the slopes of the Caucasus. The name of what are today the Circassians was known to Greek geographers early on, but the details they provide about where the C. lived do not agree with each other (according to Str. 11,492; 496f. between the Heniochi and the Moschi). Brentjes, Burchard (Berlin) Danoff, Christo (Sofia) Bibliography W. Kroll, s.v. Kerketai, RE 11, 291f. T. M. Minajeva, Archaeological Research in the Land of the Circassians (Russian), 1953, 34ff. Ch. Danoff, s.v. Pontos E…
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Brill’s New Pauly