things that were deleted from this article i am going through the entire article history and going to list below all the turkic theory related stuff that was ever suppressed from the article so that rfc'ers may discuss its encyclopedic merits here's what i have so far while other scholars support the testimony of classical authors who identify scythians with nomadic t rks the th century geographer vartan says scityia what others call turk extend from itil to imaush mount countries and nations the tochars and eftalitas and other barbar nations saint martin memoires sur l'armenie pg the scythian tribe of akathyrs described by herodotus in the th c bc were a main cavalry army of the attila's huns in the th c ad alternate etymology suggest an ancient t rkic ethnonym sk that over the centuries with various modifications developed into a multitude of t rkic ethnonyms including those known from classical times as scyth sak sogdy skolot and others