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Taumuriyah | |
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| Died | c. 520s BCE Scythia |
| Nationality | Saka |
Taumuriyah, also known by the Greek name Tomyris, was a queen of the Scythian Massagetae tribe. In 530 BCE, she killed the Achaemenid emperor Kūruš II in a battle on the Amu Darya.[1]
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- ↑ Grigory Bongard-Levin, Boris Piotrovsky (1988). Ancient Civilisations of East and West. https://archive.org/details/ancientciveastwest/mode/1up.