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In classical times, southern Ukraine was populated by nomadic Iranic-speaking peoples like the Scythians and Sarmatians, and at one point was occupied by the army of Darius I, who campaigned against the Scythians.

What would it take for this population, perhaps formally conquered by the Persian Empire, to persist to the present? Would they become Hellenized at some point? How would their presence affect the development of Europe down the centuries?
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