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> The Amazons didn't exist, and are a fictional group from Greek Mythology.
Yes and No.
You are right in the sense that there was probably no tribe/kingdom/society that was exactly named "Amazones".
You are wrong in the sense that there were no tribes/kingdoms/societies with matrilineality[1] and/or matrilocality[2].
Archaeologists discovered burial sites of female warriors and the horse cultures of the Scythians[3] and the Sarmatians[4] are believed to be the template for the Amazones. The old Greeks considered them as real but because their origin could not be exactly located (pretty normal for nomadic life) classic scholars declared the Amazons to be a myth.
Be that as it may, every myth has a more or less on reality based core.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilocal_residence
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatians