Τάναϊς

Tanais: a city with the same name as the river. Strabo in book 7, citing Alexander Polyhistor: ‘At the outlets of the Tanais into Lake Maiotis, a Greek city, Tanais, has been founded, which is also called Emporion.’ A citizen is a ‘Tanaites’, and the feminine is ‘Tanaitis’. Some say that the river is also the Akesines and the Iaxartes, and that many barbarian names have been Hellenised, as Nikanor says.