Tauri

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An ancient people who inhabited the Crimean Mountains. historical, plural, plural-only

    "Who these Tauri were is a question of some difficulty. Strabo calls them a Scythian people, but Herodotus clearly distinguishes the Tauri from the Scythians, as being a different nation."

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"Who these Tauri were is a question of some difficulty. Strabo calls them a Scythian people, but Herodotus clearly distinguishes the Tauri from the Scythians, as being a different nation."

Etymology

From Latin Taurī, from Ancient Greek Ταῦροι (Taûroi).

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