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Dniepr river is located in EASTERN Belarus, almost on a border with Russia, so there is a whole lot of 700 km until Poland
According to [[Herodotus]] the '''Neuri''' were a tribe living beyond the [[Scythian]] cultivators, one of the nations along the course of the river ''Hypanis'' ([[Bug river]]), west of the ''Borysthenes'' ([[Dniepr river]]). (Roughly the area of modern [[Belarus]] and Eastern [[Poland]]). He stated that they were driven from their land "one generation before the attack of [[Darius I of Persia|Darius]] ([[512 BC]])" by an invasion of serpents. He also reported a Scythian tale they changed once a year into [[wolf|wolves]], although giving no credence to it. This is perhaps a reference to a [[shamanism|shamanistic]] practice.
The 18th century Swedish historian [[Olof von Dalin]] wrote that the Neuri were a mixture of [[Scythians]], [[Greeks]] and [[Hebrews]] who accompanied another race, the Budiner or "Shepherd Scythians", to the Swedish islands around [[400 BC]], because of pressure from the [[Ancient Macedonians|Macedonian]]s. He adds that these Neuri were the ancestors of [[Finns]], [[Sami people|Sami]], and [[Estonians]].
: Concerning the Neuri, it should be noted that they seem to be remnants of the [[Ten Lost Tribes|Ten Tribes of Israel]] which Shalmaneser, king of [[Assyria]], brought as captives out of [[Canaan]]... [When one realises that] the language of the ancient Finns, Lapps and Estonians is similar to the [[Hebrews|Hebrew]] and even that this people in ancient times reckoned their year's beginning from the first of March, and Saturday as their Sabbath, then one sees that the Neuri in all probability had this origin. (pages 54-55, ''Svearikes Historia'', Volume 1, 1747).
This theory is seen as quaint by modern linguistics, which has found no connections between the [[Uralic languages|Uralic]] language family and the [[Semitic]] language, [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]].
Bruce Gordon's [http://www.hostkingdom.net/siberia.html#Sakâ_Paradraya Regnal Chronologies] associates the Neuri with the "[[Milograd culture]]" and notes they may have been [[Balts]] (ie. possible ancestors of [[Lithuania]]ns and kindred peoples). Others believe the Neuri to have been ancestral to the [[Slavic peoples]].
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