Tanaïs

A form of Tanais — The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativedatedhistoricalAlternative form of Tanais

    The people E. of the Tanaïs were not of sufficient importance in ancient history to require specific mention.

    1844, Sir William Smith, New Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography, page 675
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    Unworthy of mention are those writers who have stated that the Tanaïs rises in the regions on the Iste and flows from the west, because they have not reflected that the Tyras, the Borysthenes, and the Hypanis, all large rivers flow between those two rivers into the Pontus, one of them parallel to the Ister and the others parallel to the Tanaïs.

    1917, Strabo, Horace Leonard Jones (editor) John Robert Sitlington Sterrett, The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1, page 413

    By conflating names of various lakes and rivers so as to redefine the course of the Tanaïs, these accounts play with the imaginary boundaries between Asia and Europe.

    2010, Zachary Sng, The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist, page 158
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