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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 88 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MELANCHLAENI (from Gr. µEtas, and Xtaiva, "
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Black-cloaks ")  , an
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ancient tribe to the
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north of
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Scythia, probably about the
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modern
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Ryazan and
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Tambov (
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Herodotus iv . Io6) . They have been identified with the Finnish tribes Merja (now
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extinct) and Cheremis, now driven north-
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east on to the
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middle
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Volga . These, till recently, wore
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black . There has been confusion between this tribe and another of the same. name mentioned by
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Pliny (N . H. vi . 15), and
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Ptolemy in the
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Caucasus . (E . H .

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