Saka

Sakas

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Issyk's Gold Cataphract Warrior (from Kazakhstan), a parade gold scale armour from Issyk's thoimb of Sakas King
Total population
Unknown
Regions with significant populations
Eastern Europe Central Asia Northeast Asia
Languages
Scythian languages
Religion
Animism
Related ethnic groups
Sarmatians Dahae Sakas Scythians Massagetes

The Sakas^[1] were a population of Iranic^[2][3][4] nomadic tribesmen lived in the plains of Eurasia from Eastern Europe to China, from the Old Persian Period to the Middle Persian Period. Then Turkic language speakers took their place.^[source?]

The ancient Greeks called the Sakas the Scythians.^[source?]

Sakas came across the river Indus and overan Sind and Saurashtra (near Gujrat) .They finally settled down in Kathiawar and malwa. They were often in war with the Satavahanas. Rudradaman, one of their best known king was the one who stopped the expansion of Sata ahana power to the north of river Narmada. The Sakas themselves could not expand to the north as they would have liked to, because Kushanas held them back.

1. ↑ English form of Old Iranian Sakā, nominative plural masculine case; ancient Greek Σάκαι, Sakai; Sanskrit Śaka
2. ↑ Andrew Dalby, Dictionary of Languages: the definitive reference to more than 400 languages, Columbia University Press, 2004, pg 278
3. ↑ Sarah Iles Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, Harvard University Press, 2004. pg 197
4. ↑ Edward A Allworth,Central Asia: A Historical Overview,Duke University Press, 1994. pp 86.