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Sarmatia was a region of the Eurasian steppe inhabited by the Sarmatians. Maciej Miechowita (1457–1523) used "Sarmatia" for the Black Sea region and further divided it into Sarmatia Europea, which included East Central Europe , and Sarmatia Asiatica. [ 1 ]
The territory inhabited by the Sarmatians, which was known as Sarmatia (/ s ɑːr ˈ m eɪ ʃ i ə /) to Greco-Roman ethnographers, covered the western part of greater Scythia, and corresponded to today's Central Ukraine, South-Eastern Ukraine, Southern Russia, Russian Volga, and South-Ural regions, and to a smaller extent the northeastern ...
The Sarmatian Craton or Sarmatia is the southern segment/region of the East European Craton or Baltica, also known as Scythian Plateau. The craton contains Archaean rocks 2.8 to 3.7 billion years old (Ga). During the Carboniferous the craton was rifted apart by the Dnieper-Donets rift.
Sarmatia or Sarmatian may refer to: Sarmatia, the land of the Sarmatians in eastern Europe, ancient Iranian peoples closely related to the Scythians Sarmatia Asiatica and Sarmatia Europea, geographical differentiation of the above; Sarmatian language, an Eastern Iranian language; Sarmatia, a genus of moths in the family Erebidae
The term Sarmatism was first used by Jan Długosz in his 15th century work on the history of Poland. [6] Długosz was also responsible for linking the Sarmatians to the prehistory of Poland and this idea was continued by other chroniclers and historians such as Stanisław Orzechowski, Marcin Bielski, Marcin Kromer, and Maciej Miechowita. [6]
The German and Sarmatian campaigns of Constantine were fought by the Roman Emperor Constantine I against the neighbouring Germanic peoples, including the Franks, Alemanni and Goths, as well as the Sarmatian Iazyges, along the whole Roman northern defensive system to protect the empire's borders, between 306 and 336.
This ecoregion is situated in Europe between boreal forests/taiga in the north and the broadleaf belt in the south and occupies about 846,100 km 2 (326,700 mi 2) in southernmost Norway, southern Sweden (except southernmost), southwesternmost Finland, northern Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, northern Belarus and the central part of European Russia.
Sarmatia albolineata Bethune-Baker, 1911 Angola; Sarmatia ankasoka Viette, 1979 Madagascar; Sarmatia expandens (Walker, 1869) Sarmatia indenta Bethune-Baker, 1909; Sarmatia interitalis Guenée, 1854 southern Africa; Sarmatia malagasy Viette, 1968 Madagascar; Sarmatia subpallescens (Holland, 1894) western Africa; Sarmatia talhouki Wiltshire ...