Western Scythians and the Scythia in geographic and rhetoric spaces from the 1st to the 7th c. AD. / ЗАПАДНЫЕ СКИФЫ И СКИФИЯ В ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКОМ И РИТОРИЧЕСКОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВАХ I–VII ВВ. Н. Э. (original) (raw)
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Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region, Vol. 12, 2020
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