Sigynnen

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The Sigynnen are an old European ethnic group, probably of Iranian origin.

They appear in Herodotus as one of the peoples of Thrace :

As for the part of the country which is further north, no one can say with certainty what kind of inhabitants it has; but what lies beyond the Isters seems to be completely desolate and inaccessible. I have learned nothing more about it than that certain people live there, called Sigynnen, and dressed like the Medes ; these are said to have horses that are very rough all over and have hair that is five fingers long. They are very small and have depressed noses and are not even strong enough to carry a human. But when they are harnessed to the wagons, they are very fast, and the inhabitants drive around with them. Their limits should come up against the Venetians who live on the Adriatic Sea. They pretend to be descendants of the Medes, but I can't say how that happens. Anything can happen in a long time. With the Ligurians , who live above Massalia , the word Sigynnes means Märkler, with the Cyprians, however, throwing skewers.

For Ignac Orožen , the author of the Celska Kronika , the Venetians and Liburnians are said to have been the oldest inhabitants in what is now Lower Styria and thus also in the area around Cilli . Orožen brings an etymology of the name Pannonia about the name of the Sigynnen , in which he bases himself on the above: Greek writers and historians used the media to describe today's India (which is by no means true with Herodotus). The Ligurian word meaning reads Orožen as "trader" - in the "Indian language" trader or merchant means Panan. Orožen therefore means that the name Pannonia comes from the Sigynnen.

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