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Tanaïs

Τάναϊς).


1.

Now the Don, i.e. “water”; a great river, which rises in the north of Sarmatia Europaea (about the centre of Russia), and flows to the southeast till it comes near the Volga, when it turns to the southwest, and falls into the northeast angle of the Palus Maeotis (Sea of Azof). It was usually considered the boundary between Europe and Asia.


2.

A city of Sarmatia Asiatica, on the north side of the southern mouth of the Tanaïs, at a little distance from the sea.

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