{"slug": "scythians", "label": "Scythians", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131802", "qid": "Q131802", "description": "ancient Iranian nomadic people", "entries": 16, "years": 14, "span": [-611, 458], "span_label": ["612 BCE", "458 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "andhra-pradesh", "label": "Andhra Pradesh", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "medes", "label": "Medes", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bactria", "label": "Bactria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kushan-empire", "label": "Kushan Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "punjab-region", "label": "Punjab region", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gujarat", "label": "Gujarat", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Philip II of Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dobruja", "label": "Dobruja", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -611, "year_label": "612 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Nineveh: An allied army of Babylonians, Medes, Scythians, and Susianians besieges and conquers Nineveh, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Sinsharishkun, King of Assyria, is killed in the sacking.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510241#Events", "title": "612 BC", "revid": 1370510241, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -512, "year_label": "513 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Darius the Great subdues the Getae and east Thrace in his war against the Scythians. To accomplish this, he builds a massive pontoon bridge across the Bosphorus Strait.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129130#Asia", "title": "513 BC", "revid": 1350129130, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": -493, "year_label": "494 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Thracians and Scythians drive Miltiades the Younger from the Chersonesos. Miltiades loads five boats with his treasures and makes for Athens. One of the boats, captained by Miltiades' eldest son, Metiochos is captured. Metiochos is taken as a lifelong prisoner to Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362845788#Greece", "title": "494 BC", "revid": 1362845788, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -339, "year_label": "340 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip II fails in his siege of Byzantium and is forced to respond to attacks by the Scythians near the mouth of the Danube. His son, Alexander is regent while his father fights against Byzantium and the Scythians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1239354213#Greece", "title": "340 BC", "revid": 1239354213, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -338, "year_label": "339 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip II of Macedon decides to attack the Scythians, using as an excuse their reluctance to allow Philip to dedicate a statue of Heracles at the Danube estuary. The two armies clash on the plains of modern-day Dobruja. The ninety-year-old King of the Scythians, Ateas, is killed during the battle and his army is routed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1032056745#Greece", "title": "339 BC", "revid": 1032056745, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -338, "year_label": "339 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ateas, king of the Scythians (b. c. 429 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1032056745#Deaths", "title": "339 BC", "revid": 1032056745, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -327, "year_label": "328 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spitamenes raises all Sogdiana in revolt behind him, bringing in the Massagetae, a people of the Scythian confederacy. He besieges the Macedonian garrison in Maracanda. Alexander the Great sends an army under the command of Pharnuches of Lycia which is promptly annihilated with a loss of more than 2,000 infantry and 300 cavalry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353522998#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "328 BC", "revid": 1353522998, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -126, "year_label": "127 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Scythians defeat the Parthians in a battle around Media.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326020642#Parthia", "title": "127 BC", "revid": 1326020642, "section": "Events › By place › Parthia"}}, {"year": -34, "year_label": "35 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Azes I, Indo-Scythian ruler, completes the domination of the Scythians in northern India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862738#India", "title": "35 BC", "revid": 1325862738, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -11, "year_label": "12 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Azes II dies. The rule of the Indo-Scythians crumbles as the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who live in Bactria expand into India to create a Kushan Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372852966#India", "title": "12 BC", "revid": 1372852966, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": 119, "year_label": "119 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Reign in Northern India by Nahapana, Scythian king. He attacks the kingdom of Andhra and annexes Southern Rajputana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330326648#Asia", "title": "AD 119", "revid": 1330326648, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 120, "year_label": "120 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Scythians dominate western India: Punjab, Sind, the north of Gujarat and a portion of central India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371191850#Asia", "title": "AD 120", "revid": 1371191850, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 124, "year_label": "124 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In northern India, Nahapana, ruler of the Scythians, is defeated and dies in battle while fighting against King Gautamiputra Satakarni. This defeat destroys the Scythian dynasty of the Western Kshatrapas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330350231#Asia", "title": "AD 124", "revid": 1330350231, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 124, "year_label": "124 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Nahapana, ruler of the Scythians (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330350231#Deaths", "title": "AD 124", "revid": 1330350231, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 130, "year_label": "130 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Scythian king Rudradaman I reconquers the lands annexed by Gautamiputra from the Andhra.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371186549#Asia", "title": "AD 130", "revid": 1371186549, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 458, "year_label": "458 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Majorian builds a Roman fleet at Miseno and Ravenna. He strengthens the army, by recruiting a large number of barbarian mercenaries (Bastarnae, Burgundians, Huns, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Scythians and Suebi).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748114#Roman_Empire", "title": "458", "revid": 1364748114, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}