Agathyrsi

Agathyrsi
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]

  1. ^ Parzinger 2004, p. 119.
  2. ^ Batty 2007, p. 205.
  3. ^ Olbrycht 2000b, p. 104-105.