Scythia Minor

LC control no.	n 2008029419
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Scythia Minor *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Scythia (Roman province) Lesser Scythia Mikra Skythia
Special note	SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria)
Found in	Scythia Minor, 2006: t.p. (Scythia Minor) p. 1 (Roman province known in 4th-6th cent. imperial nomenclature as Scythia covered roughly the territory between the lower Danube and the Black Sea. These lands also appear in some ancient historical and geographical literature under the name Scythia Minor. Official sources leave no doubt as to its being an administrative unit within the later Roman Empire's diocese of Thrace) Wikipedia, Apr. 22, 2008: (Scythia Minor ("Lesser Scythia," Greek: Mikrá Skythia) was in ancient times the region surrounded by the Danube at the north and west and the Black Sea at the east, corresponding to today's Dobruja, with a large part in Romania and a smaller part in Bulgaria.) Britannica online, Apr. 22, 2008: (under Dobruja: between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD, Rome dominated the region, which was known as Scythia Minor)
Geographic area code	e-rm--- e-bu---