page_title: Siracena
hierarchical_section_title: Siracena
caption_attribution_description: English: Map depicting the Caucasus region around 400 B.C. Siracena, land of the Siraces, is shown in grey, according to its approximate greatest extent.
context_page_description: Siracena seems to have been the capital settlement or village of the tribe of Siraces, a powerful, hellenized Sarmatian tribe on the steppe. It was ruled by the kings of the Siraces, most notably Aripharnes, who engaged in the Bosporan civil-war of 309 BC.
  The exact location of this settlement is unknown, but it is described as being on the Thatis River.
context_section_description: Siracena seems to have been the capital settlement or village of the tribe of Siraces, a powerful, hellenized Sarmatian tribe on the steppe. It was ruled by the kings of the Siraces, most notably Aripharnes, who engaged in the Bosporan civil-war of 309 BC.
  The exact location of this settlement is unknown, but it is described as being on the Thatis River (a tributary to the Kuban).
caption: Map depicting the Caucasus region around 400 B.C. Siracena, land of the Siraces, is shown in grey, according to its approximate greatest extent.
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