Pagyritae
Παγυπῖται
Pagyritae (Παγυπῖται, Ptol. 3.5.22), a people of European Sarmatia, whose position cannot be made out. Schafarik (Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 211) connects the termination of their name with the word gura,
which the Poles and other Busso-Slavonian stocks use for gora,
mountain.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.