Scaugdae

Dacian tribes.

The Scaugdae were an ancient people living between the Haemus Mountains and the Danube river.

History

They are known from only one passage from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia , where he mentions them alongside the Aedi and Clariae as the neighbours of the Getae. ^[1]

According to the scholar Georgi Mihailov, the Scaugdae were a Getic tribe. ^[2]

See also

• List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia

References

1. Batty, Roger (2007). Rome and the Nomads: The Pontic-Danubian Realm in Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN   978-0-198-14936-1.
2. Mihailovi, G. (1991). "Thrace Before the Persian Entry into Europe". In Boardman, John; Edwards, I. E. S.; Hammond, N. G. L.; Sollberger, E.; Walker, C. B. F. (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 591–618. ISBN   978-1-139-05429-4. Getic tribes were probably the Aedi, the Scaugdae and the Clariae...