Editing Issedones (section)

{{Short description|Historical ethnical group}}
The '''Issedones''' ({{langx|grc|Ἰσσηδόνες}}) were an ancient people of [[Central Asia]] at the end of the trade route leading north-east from [[Scythia]], described in the lost ''Arimaspeia''<ref>The few fragmentary quoted lines are assembled by Kinkel, ''Epicorum graecorum fragments'', 243-47.</ref> of [[Aristeas]], by [[Herodotus]] in his ''History'' (IV.16-25) and by [[Ptolemy]] in his ''Geography''. Like the [[Massagetae]] to the south, the Issedones are described by Herodotus as similar to, yet distinct from, the [[Scythians]]. 
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