Haxāϑrauš | |
|---|---|
 The Agathyrsi lived in Transylvania when they first appeared in historical records | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Pontic Steppe (9th–8th century BC) Moldavia, Transylvania, Oltenia (7th–3rd century BC) | |
| Languages | |
| Scythian Getic | |
| Religion | |
| Scythian religion Thracian religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Cimmerians, Dacians, Getae, Massagetae, Saka, Sarmatians, Scythians, Thracians |
The Agathyrsi were an ancient people belonging to the Scythian cultures[1][2] who lived in the Transylvanian Plateau, in the region that later became Dacia. The Agathyrsi are largely known from Herodotus of Halicarnassus's description of them in the 5th century BC.[3]
- ^ Parzinger 2004, p. 119.
- ^ Batty 2007, p. 205.
- ^ Olbrycht 2000b, p. 104-105.