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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 Asiatica ("Asiatic Sarmatia") was the name used in Ptolemy's Geography (c. 150) for a part of Sarmatia, a large region which included parts of Europe and Asia. In modern times, geographers had various views on its extent: [ 2 ]
The Iazyges' name was Latinized as Iazyges Metanastae (Ἰάζυγες Μετανάσται) or Jazyges, [15] or sometimes as Iaxamatae. [16] Their name was also occasionally spelled as Iazuges. [17]
Stanisław Antoni Szczuka in Sarmatian attire, wearing a kontusz "Treatise about two Sarmatia Asian and European and about their composition" by Maciej Miechowita (1517) Sarmatian-style Karacena armor. Sarmatism (or Sarmatianism; Polish: Sarmatyzm; Lithuanian: Sarmatizmas) was an ethno-cultural identity within the Polish–Lithuanian ...
Beginning in the late 4th century BC, another related nomadic Iranian people, the Sarmatians, moved from the east into the Pontic steppe, where they replaced the Scythians as the dominant power of the Pontic steppe. Due to the Sarmatian incursion "Sarmatia Europea" (European Sarmatia) replaced "Scythia" as the name for the region. [12] [13] [12]
"Serbi" located near the mouth of the Volga in a map depicting Sarmatia Asiatica, c. 1770. The Serboi or Serbi (Ancient Greek: Σέρβοι, romanized: Sérboi) and Sirbi (Ancient Greek: Σίρβοι) [1] was a tribe mentioned in Greco-Roman geography as living in the North Caucasus, believed by scholars to have been Sarmatian.
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.