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Maeotian marshes
In the geography of Antiquity the Maeotian marshes (Palus Maeotis) lay where the Don River emptied into the Maeotian Lake (the Sea of Azov), in Lesser Scythia, near Tanais. The marshes served as a check to the westward migration of nomad peoples from the steppe of Central Asia.
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