Editing Gargareans

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[[File:Gargareans (North Caucasus).jpg|thumb|350px|Gargareans (''Gargari'') in the [[North Caucasus]] on a fragment of [[Henry Teesdale]]'s map of the Ancient Roman Empire.]]
In [[Greek mythology]], the '''Gargareans''', or '''Gargarenses''', ({{langx|el|Γαργαρείς}} ''Gargareis'') were an all-male tribe. They copulated with the [[Amazons]] annually in order to keep both tribes reproductive. The Amazons kept the female children, raising them as warriors, and gave the males to the Gargareans.<ref>[[Strabo]], ''Geography'', Bk. 11, Ch. 5, Sec. 1</ref>

The ancient Greek geographer [[Strabo]] placed the Gargareans on the northern foothills of the [[Caucasus]]. Several scholars identify them with the [[Ghalghaï|Galgaï]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Von Klaproth |first=Julius |author-link=Julius von Klaproth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44_KRCDfyyoC&dq=Gelen+Gargareer+Galgai&pg=PA651 |title=Reise in Den Kaukasus Und Nach Georgien Unternommen in Den Jahren 1807 Und 1808 |publisher=Hallisches Waisenhaus |year=1812 |location=Halle and Berlin |pages=650–651 |language=de |trans-title=''Journey to the Caucasus and Georgia undertaken in the years 1807 and 1808''}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Robakidze |first=A. I. |url=https://dzurdzuki.com/download/kavkazskij-etnograficheskij-sbornik-tbilisi-tom-2-ingushetiya-1968 |title=Kavkazskiĭ ėtnograficheskiĭ sbornik, II. Ocherki ėtnografii Gornoĭ Ingushetii |publisher=Metsniereba |year=1968 |location=Tbilisi |pages=15, 27, 204 |language=ru |script-title=ru:Кавказский этнографический сборник, II. Очерки этнографии Горной Ингушетии |trans-title=''Caucasian ethnographical collection, II: notes on the ethnography of Mountainous Ingushetia''}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Mayor |first=Adrienne |author-link=Adrienne Mayor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mW6YDwAAQBAJ&dq=Ghalghai+Gergar&pg=PA361 |title=The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World. |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2016 |isbn=9780691170275 |page=361}}</ref> According to E. Krupnov, the accuracy of the localization of Strabo's Gargareans in ''Galga-chuv'' ([[Ingushetia]]) is confirmed by archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic data.<ref>{{cite book |author=Krupnov |first=E. I. |url=https://dzurdzuki.com/download/krupnov-e-i-srednevekovaya-ingushetiya-1971 |title=Srednevekovaia Ingushetiia |publisher=[[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]] |year=1971 |location=Moscow |page=26 |language=ru |script-title=ru:Средневековая Ингушетия |trans-title=''Medieval Ingushetia''}}</ref> [[Pliny the Elder|Gaius Plinius Secundus]] likewise localizes the Gargareans north of the [[Caucasus Mountains]], but calls them ''Gegar''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Latyshev|first=V. V.|title=Izvestiia drevnikh pisateleĭ grecheskikh i latinskikh o Skifii i Kavkaz|trans-title=''Reports of ancient Latin and Greek authors about Scythians in the Caucasus''|script-title=ru:Известия древних писателей греческих и латинских о Скифии и Кавказе|year=1890–1906|others=Vol. 1 (1890), vol. 2 parts 1 (1904) and 2 (1906)|location=Saint Petersburg}} Krupnov 1971, p. 25.</ref>

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