Sciri
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1|Effigy of Odoacer, who is thought to be of Scirian descent The Sciri, or Scirians, were a Germanic people, who were first mentioned in the late 3rd century BC as participants in a raid on the city of Olbia near modern-day Odesa. Along with the Bastarnae, who are much more frequently mentioned, they are among the earliest, and most easterly, of the Germanic peoples mentioned by Greek or Roman authors.
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- Name
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- History
- Origins and early history
- The Sciri under Hunnic rule
- Independent kingdom
- Later history
- Culture
- See also
- Notes and references
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- Ancient sources
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thumb|upright=1|Effigy of Odoacer, who is thought to be of Scirian descent The Sciri, or Scirians, were a Germanic people, who were first mentioned in the late 3rd century BC as participants in a raid on the city of Olbia near modern-day Odesa. Along with the Bastarnae, who are much more frequently mentioned, they are among the earliest, and most easterly, of the Germanic peoples mentioned by Greek or Roman authors.
Centuries later, in the late 4th century AD they still lived somewhere north of the Black Sea and Lower Danube in the vicinity of the Goths. By the early 5th century, the Sciri had been subdued by the Huns, whom they fought under at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in AD 451.
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