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Tasius

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Tasius is the name given by Strabo to the king of the Rhoxolani, a Sarmatian tribal group.[1] Around 100 BCE, Tasius led an invasion of Crimea in support of the Scythian warlord Palacus. He was defeated by the Pontian general Diophantus.

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  1. ^ London, Ethnological Society of (1868). Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London. Ethnological Society. p. 349.