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The Pontic–Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes. It stretches from the northern shores of the Black Sea (the Pontus Euxinus of antiquity) to the northern area around the Caspian Sea , where it ends at the Ural-Caspian narrowing, which joins it with the Kazakh ...
The Wild Fields [a] is a historical term used in the Polish–Lithuanian documents of the 16th to 18th centuries [1] to refer to the Pontic steppe in the territory of present-day Eastern and Southern Ukraine and Western Russia, north of the Black Sea and Azov Sea. It was the traditional name for the Black Sea steppes in the 16th and 17th ...
The rapidly developing fields of archaeogenetics and genetic genealogy since the late 1990s have not only confirmed a migratory pattern out of the Pontic Steppe at the relevant time [6] [7] [8] [24] but also suggest the possibility that the population movement involved was more substantial than earlier anticipated [6] and invasive. [24] [25]
The territory of the Scythian kingdom of the Pontic steppe extended from the Don river in the east to the Danube river in the west, and covered the territory of the treeless steppe immediately north of the Black Sea's coastline, which was inhabited by nomadic pastoralists, as well as the fertile black-earth forest-steppe area to the north of the treeless steppe, which was inhabited by an ...
Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western, and Northern Europe during the third millennium BC. [1] The earliest kurgans date to the fourth millennium BC in the Caucasus, [2] and some researchers associate these with the Indo-Europeans. [3]
The Pontic colonies, on its northern shores; Pontus (region), a region on its southern shores; The Pontic–Caspian steppe, steppelands stretching from north of the Black Sea as far east as the Caspian Sea; The Pontic Mountains, a range of mountains in northern Turkey, close to the southern coast of the Black Sea
Shortly thereafter, other nomadic peoples replaced the weakened Pechenegs in the Pontic steppe: the Cumans and the Torks. According to Mykhailo Hrushevsky (History of Ukraine-Ruthenia), after its defeat near Kiev the Pecheneg Horde moved towards the Danube, crossed the river, and disappeared out of the Pontic steppes.
In physical geography, a steppe (/ s t ɛ p /) is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes. [1] Steppe biomes may include: the montane grasslands and shrublands biome; the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome; the temperate grasslands, savannas, and ...