Things that were deleted from this article   I am going through the entire article history and going to list below all the Turkictheory related stuff that was ever suppressed from the article so that RFCers may discuss its encyclopedic merits  Heres what I have so far     while other scholars support the testimony of classical authors who identify Scythians with nomadic Trks  The thcentury geographer Vartan says Scityia what others call Turk extend from  Itil to Imaush mount countries and nations the  Tochars and  Eftalitas and other barbar nationsSaint Martin Memoires sur lArmenie  pg  the Scythian tribe of Akathyrs described by Herodotus in the th c BC were a main cavalry army of the Attilas Huns in the th c AD  Alternate etymology suggest an ancient Trkic ethnonym Sk that over the centuries with various modifications developed into a multitude of Trkic ethnonyms including those known from classical times as Scyth Sak Sogdy Skolot and others