Ancient tribe of Thessaly, descendant of Aeaque, son of Zeus and Aegina.
The Myrmidons (in ancient Greek Myrmidónes) are a mythical people of Greece.
They are created by Zeus from ants (μύρμηξ / mýrmex means “ant”) to repopulate the island of Aegina where his son, Aeacus, was born (this island had indeed been ravaged by a plague due to Hera). Under the leadership of his son, Peleus, they then emigrated to southern Thessaly. They participate in the Trojan War under the orders of Achilles.
Dvergr (pl. dvergar), idea of “twisted”. Contrary to our modern folklores, the ancient Scandinavian dwarfs were not small but had our size. It was the Church that reduced them to their present status, in accordance with its policy of systematically devaluing all pagan creatures. Even thus reduced
Speaking Indo-European like the Medes, they had entered Iran at the same time as them at the end of the second millennium. They settled in the 9th century in the country of Parsua, south and south-west of Lake Urmiah, then moved south-east to occupy the mountains of Fars. The Persians, like the Med
The Avars are a proto-Mongol people of nomadic horsemen led by a Khâgan, sometimes identified with the Ruanruan, who threatened China in the 3rd century. They are from Tartary, from the family of the Huns. In the 5th century, Chö-louen, khan of the Jouan Jouan, founded a nomadic empire from Korea t
The Etruscans (Latin:Tuscii) are a people who lived in Etruria, a territory roughly corresponding to present-day Tuscany and northern Lazio, the center of the Italian peninsula, before the period of Roman royalty. Their Greek neighbors called them Thyrrhenoi, meaning Tyrrhenians, but they called the