Maciya
Maciya[1] one of the Pontic[2] peoples mentioned by Darius and Xerxes. Maciya is probably Macron in southern Balochistan.[3]
Etymology
[edit]Machiya comes from the Old Persian place name Maka(probably corresponds to the Gedrosia of ancient authors), which literally means "living or dwelling by the sea."
History
[edit]Inscription of King Darius I: “I am Darius, the great king, the king of kings, the king of multi-tribal countries ... By the will of Ahuramazda, these are the countries that I had to rule, except for Persia: ... Media, Elam, Parthia, Areia, Bactria, Sogdiana, Khorezm, Drangiana, Arachosia, Sattagidia, Gaidara, India, scythians haumavarga, scythians with pointed hats, Babylon, Assyria, Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, Cappadocia, Lydia, Ionia, scythians across the sea, Skudra, Ionians wearing helmets , Putia, Kushia (Ethiopia), Maciya, Karka ".[4]
Maciya is also called a people living beyond the sea.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Maciyâ - Livius
- ^ Meyer, Eduard (1921). Geschichte des Altertums, Volume 5 (in German). Stuttgart Und Berlin: J.G. Cotta. p. 561.
- ^ Struve, Vasily (1950). Xerxes's anti - dev inscription / Anthology on the history of the ancient world. Volume 1. Ancient East (in Russian). Moscow: Учпедгиз. p. 277.
- ^ Tokarev, Sergei (1978). The origins of ethnographic science (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. p. 8.
- ^ The Experience of the Historical-Typological Study of the Iranian Languages: The Evolution of Grammatical Categories (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. 1975. p. 205.