Scaugdae

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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.{{cite book |last=Batty |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Batty |date=2007 |title=Rome and the Nomads: The Pontic-Danubian Realm in Antiquity |url= |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=234 |isbn=978-0-198-14936-1 }}

According to the scholar Georgi Mihailov, the Scaugdae were a Getic tribe.{{cite book |editor1-last=Boardman |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Boardman (art historian) |editor2-last=Edwards |editor2-first=I. E. S. |editor2-link=I. E. S. Edwards |editor3-last=Hammond |editor3-first=N. G. L. |editor3-link=N. G. L. Hammond |editor4-last=Sollberger |editor4-first=E. |editor4-link=Edmond Sollberger |editor5-last=Walker |editor5-first=C. B. F. |last1=Mihailovi |first1=G. |date=1991 |title=The Cambridge Ancient History |volume=3 |chapter=Thrace Before the Persian Entry into Europe |issue=2 |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=591–618 |isbn=978-1-139-05429-4 |quote=Getic tribes were probably the Aedi, the Scaugdae and the Clariae... }}

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