Kitap 4
17.1
North of the port of the Borysthenites,Another Milesian colony, called by Greeks generally +Izmit [29.916,40.783] (inhabited place), Kocaeli, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Olbia (the Fortunate) or Miletopolis; it was the most important Greek center north of the +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Euxine . which lies midway along the coast of Scythia (region (general)), Asia Scythia , the first inhabitants are the Callippidae, who are Scythian Greeks; and beyond them another tribe called Alazones; these and the Callippidae, though in other ways they live like the Scythians, plant and eat grain, onions, garlic, lentils, and millet.
17.2
Above the Alazones live Scythian farmers, who plant grain not to eat but to sell; north of these, the Neuri; north of the Neuri, the land is uninhabited so far as we know.
18.1
These are the tribes by the Hypanis river,The Bug. west of the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes . But on the other side of the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes , the tribe nearest to the sea is the tribe of the Woodlands; and north of these live Scythian farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call Borystheneïtae.
18.2
These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching east a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes,Not identified. and north as far as an eleven days' voyage up the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes ; and north of these the land is desolate for a long way;
18.3
after the desolation is the country of the Man-eaters, who are a nation apart and by no means Scythian; and beyond them is true desolation, where no nation of men lives, as far as we know.
19.1
But to the east of these farming Scythians, across the Panticapes river, you are in the land of nomadic Scythians, who plant nothing, nor plough; and all these lands except the Woodlands are bare of trees. These nomads inhabit a country to the east that stretches fourteen days' journey to the Gerrus river.Not identified.
