Skunkha

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Name

The name Script error: No such module "lang". might be related to the Ossetian term meaning "distinguishing oneself," and attested as Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in the Iron dialect, and as Script error: No such module "lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".) in the Digor dialect.[2][3]

Capture

In 519 BC, Darius I of the Persian Achaemenid Empire attacked the Saka tribe and captured their king. His capture is depicted in the relief sculpture of Behistun Inscription, last in a row of defeated "lying kings".[4] After his defeat, Darius replaced him with the chief of another tribe.[5]

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Regnal titles
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check King of the Script error: No such module "lang".
mid 6th century BCE–518 BCE Template:S-ttl/check
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