Scythia
- Ancient name
- Scythia
- Coordinates
- 49.99, 36.24
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364073
Ancient Scythia corresponds roughly to the areas north and east of the Black Sea, also frequently labeled as Tartaria, Sauromate, and/or Sarmatia. A division into Scythia this side of the mountains and Scythia beyond the mountains (much rarer) implies influence from contemporary 15th-century Ptolemaic maps.
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location M060
Variant spellings of Scythia in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| Sarca | Clas2 |
| Satia | Con3, Cs1, Laur3, Pnc5 |
| scitia | Fn12, Spe |
| Scitia | Barb4, Borg, Chig1, Con1, Cors2, Fn6, Fn9, Fo, Magl2, Marc1, NB, NYPL3, Pal5, Par1, Par2, Pnc4, Ricc11, Ricc12, Ricc13, Ricc14, Ricc15, Ricc8, Ricc9, To2, Urb1, Vat3, Yale4 |
| SCITIA | BL01 |
| scizia | Bal, Chig2, Laur5 |
| Scizia | Barb3, Con4, He2, New, Ro2 |
| Scytia | Bos |
| stizia | ME2 |
| Stizia | Pad1 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Scythia.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/scythia/.