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Section sizes

Section size for Scythians (78 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,224	5,224
Names	45	10,056
Etymology	4,374	4,374
Modern terminology	63	5,637
Scythians proper	717	717
Broader designations	3,085	3,085
Saka	710	710
Cimmerians	1,062	1,062
History	772	7,917
Proto-Scythian period	2,569	2,569
Migration out of Central Asia	1,674	4,576
Displacement of the Cimmerians	2,902	2,902
Early (or Archaic) Scythian period	70	35,012
Ciscaucasian kingdom	2,399	2,399
West Asia	4,074	20,187
Initial activities in West Asia	4,738	4,738
West Asian influences on the Scythians	2,545	2,545
Reign of Madyes	4,403	4,403
Decline in West Asia	4,427	4,427
Initial Greek interactions	2,225	2,225
Pontic Steppe	2,091	10,131
Influence and campaigns from the Pontic Steppe	4,495	4,495
Foreign pressures	5,802	5,802
The Persian invasion	2,238	2,238
Middle (or Classical) period	1,907	28,483
Expansionism	5,142	5,142
Commercial activities	2,099	4,902
Greek influence	2,803	2,803
Early sedentarisation	1,664	1,664
Instabilities	4,014	4,014
Golden Age	3,221	6,102
The reign of Ateas	2,881	2,881
Decline and fall of Pontic Scythia	4,752	4,752
Late period	3,746	5,526
End	1,780	1,780
Legacy	440	14,398
Antiquity	6,149	6,149
Mediaeval period	2,517	2,517
Modern period	5,292	5,292
Culture and society	1,473	49,841
Language	1,007	1,007
Social organisation	4,310	4,310
Administrative structure	2,901	2,901
Economy	867	10,520
Pastoralism and agriculture	2,318	2,318
Metalworking	1,660	1,660
Trade	5,675	5,675
Lifestyle	16	29,630
Equestrianism	4,538	4,538
Diet	1,514	1,514
Clothing and grooming	3,448	3,448
Medicine	1,503	1,503
Pets	74	3,179
Art	14	3,105
Literary art	122	122
Physical art	436	436
The "Animal Style"	286	286
Development	2,247	2,247
Religion	1,017	1,017
Warfare	1,255	14,415
Weapons	104	7,953
Archery	3,889	3,889
Poisons	3,024	3,024
Other weapons	936	936
Armour	2,170	2,170
Command structure	881	881
Tactics	173	173
War customs	1,983	1,983
Physical appearance	2,704	4,030
Archaeology	1,326	1,326
Genetics	1,946	1,946
List of rulers	796	4,728
Kings of Early Scythians	1,199	1,199
Kings of Pontic Scythians	2,733	2,733
See also	159	159
References	35	35
Sources	58,188	61,528
Further reading	3,340	3,340
Total	233,378	233,378

Add Armenian, Greek, and New Persian transliterations

(Old Persian: Sakā; New Persian: ساکا Saka; Greek: Σάκαι Sakai; Armenian: սկյութները Skyout'nerə; Latin: Sacae, Sanskrit: शक Śaka), and Sai (Chinese: 塞; Old Chinese: *sˤək), respectively.[8]

Battle of Carchemish

Wiki article by this name reports Scyths allied with medes and babylonians toppling Neo-assyrian empire. 2600:1011:B30E:8F2F:D979:BEA1:3ACC:9316 (talk) 15:24, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"After the Scythians' disappearance..."

This statement in the preface is neither sourced, nor reasonable. Why would "authors" especially "ancient" (being much closer in time) persist in applying name Scythians to various non related people? Stupidity or just knowing much better about "disappearance"? 91.230.101.219 (talk) 05:12, 3 December 2024 (UTC) The statement needs to be deleted or replaced with something like "Modern historiography consensus on Scythians' extinction through having been totally assimilated ca 5th century AD disregards the abundance of references to Scythians in medieval and early modern sources". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.230.101.219 (talk) 10:18, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Under the "Culture and Society" > "Warfare" > "Weapons" > "Archery" section, there is a minor typo at the very end of the paragraph, "...possibly because *hey* might have been...". Presumably, "hey" is meant to be written as "they" instead, and should be edited to fix this. Karma12th (talk) 23:36, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done tgeorgescu (talk) 00:19, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hippocrates NEVER describes the Scythians as light skinned!!! REMOVE THE SOURCE IMMEDIATLY! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.180.144 (talk) 03:59, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Topics concerning history

I'm no expert on the subject, but shouldn't the topics discussing the periods be included within the history one? Maybe that would help with the problem concerning the large amount of headlines.

Also, shouldn't the topics and sub-headlines be organized in chronological order? It seems that some subtopics, such as initial interactions with greeks, at the early period aren't arranged like that.Icy Train (talk) 12:06, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]