SARMATIA

särmāˈshə, ancient district between the Vistula River and the Caspian Sea, occupied by the Sarmatians [Lat. Sarmatae] from the 3d cent. b.c. through the 2d cent. a.d. The term is vague and is also used to refer to the territory along the Danube and across the Carpathians where the Sarmatians were later driven by the Huns. The Sarmatians, who until c.200 b.c. lived E of the Don River, spoke an Indo-Iranian language and were a nomadic pastoral people related to the Scythians (see Scythia), whom they displaced in the Don region. The main divisions were the Rhoxolani, the Iazyges, and the Alans or Alani. They came into conflict with the Romans but later allied themselves with Rome, acting as buffers against the Germans. They were scattered or assimilated with the Germans by the 3d cent. a.d.

See study by T. Sulimirski (1970).

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books on: Sarmatia  - 152 results

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The Limits and Divisions of European History
Book by Oscar Halecki; Sheed and Ward, 1950
Subjects: Europe--History--Outlines, Syllabi, Etc
...Greek colonies on its coast is called Sarmatia. The Father of Geography knew little...He hesitated to include the whole of Sarmatia in either Europe or Asia, and distinguished between Sarmatia Europea and Sarmatia Asiatica , with...
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North Pontic Archaeology: Recent Discoveries and Studies
Book by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Black Sea Region--Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)--Black Sea Region
...the legend is PRINCIPI A IVVENTVTIS SARMATIA) (Bellefort 1877: pi. IV, 9...II also issued coins with the legend SARMATIA DEVICTA and the figure of Victoria standing...AVG(ustae) or GAVDIVM ROMANORVM - SARMATIA (Cohen 1888-1892: VII, Constantine...
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Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia - Vol. 1
Book by Volodymyr E. KubijovyČ; University of Toronto Press, 1963
Subjects: Ukraine--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...Rogeriana of FIGURE 11 . EUROPEAN AND ASTATIC SARMATIA BY S. MUENSTER In Solinus, C. J. Polyhistor...first time as the Eighth Map of Europe" Sarmatia Europae and the Second Map of Asia" Sarmatia Asiae in the Ulm editions of the Geography...
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Renaissance Studies in Honor of Hardin Craig
Book by Baldwin Maxwell, W. D. Briggs, Francis R. Johnson, E. N. S. Thompson; Stanford University Press, 1941
Subjects: Craig, Hardin--1875-1968, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Renaissance
...didactic remark of Mechovita in the latters Sarmatia concerning the purpose of the beast in...was a Pole or Russian who wrote of Sarmatia , the ancient name of Poland and Russia...continuaturi, prout Mechouita in sua Sarmatia opinatur. Caro huius animalis omnino...
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Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Book by Larry Wolff; Stanford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Civilization--18th Century, Europe, Eastern--Description And Travel
...Germania" a broad band of "Germano-Sarmatia," stretching across Eastern Europe...to the Black Sea. Farther east was "Sarmatia" proper, in the space of contemporary...labeled the area of Eastern Europe as "Sarmatia," with "Scythia" still farther to...
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Zircon Age Constraints on Sediment Provenance in the Caspian Region
Journal article by Mark B. Allen, Andy C. Morton, C. Mark Fanning, Arif J. Ismail-Zadeh, Salomon B. Kroonenberg; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 163, 2006
Subjects: Caspian region, Caucasus Mountains, Geological time, Igneous rock, Mineralogy, Mountains, River basins, Rock deformation, Sedimentation & deposition, Volga River, Zirconium
...data, such as the r. 3.5 Ga crust of Sarmatia. The Greater Caucasus zircons reveal...the Early Proterozoic: Fennoscandia, Sarmatia and Volgo-Uralia (Bogdanova 1993...1998). Older crust is present in Sarmatia (e.g. Samsonov et al. 1996). The...
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Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study
Journal article by Chet Van Duzer; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Acquisitions & mergers, Cartography, Libraries, Maps
...1, Orosius 1.2.4-5 and Isidore 13.21 .24.170 Sarmatia Asiatica. The name is damaged on the Weimar globe; there...1894-1980), Series 2, Vol. 2, CoIs. 1-12, s.v. "Sarmatia." Paludes Meotides. The Sea of Azov; see Hallberg, LExtreme...
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William Smith and the Rising Glory of America
Journal article by William D. Andrews; Early American Literature, Vol. 8, 1973
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
...then, gathering Glory still as you advance,/ Behd westward" to Hefestia, Persia, Greece, " Hesperian Realms," " Sarmatia ," Germany, Scandinavia, and finally to "fair Britannias Isles," There, on Europes last, but noblest, Sons, Beam...
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Ariosto the Traveller
Journal article by Ita Mac Carthy; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers--Portrayals, Adventure--Portrayals, Ariosto, Lodovico--Criticism and interpretation, Italian literary renaissance, Orlando furioso (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Satire--Criticism and interpretation, Travel--Influence, Travel--Italy, Travel--Portrayals
...his way back to Europe, he steers the ippogrifo over wondrous Cathay and Mangiana, over the Himavian range to Scythia and Sarmatia, before arriving, finally, back home. (9) Following Marco Polos footsteps along one of the famous silk routes, the itinerary...


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Even Merlin Couldn't Make This Magic; REVIEW
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 1, 2004
...fighting for Rome hundreds of years later? Where or what is Sarmatia? And, no, that map which shows it north-east of Turkey...realised I was getting my Sarmatias mixed up with my Sumerias. Sarmatia, apparently, is in modern-day Russia. I was still none...
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Give It a Myth!
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 30, 2004
...last half-dozen, which obviously saves on costumes) are crack cavalry commandos from somewhere in Eastern Europe called Sarmatia. They work for the Romans but cant have been home in some time, because their accents range from cockney (Ray Winstone plays...
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Stonehenge Skills Wanted in Wales
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 24, 2004
...and Ioan Gruffudd is released next month. This version claims Arthur was born on the eastern fringes of the Roman empire in Sarmatia, south of modern-day Russia, as Lucius Artorius Castus, before coming to Britain. Clan historian Hugh McArthur said it...
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'Arthur's' Guinevere Slays Hearts
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 7, 2004
...century romances in a noble legionnaire named Lucius Artorius Castus of the late second century. His homeland may have been Sarmatia, a conquered Russian steppe noted for its horsemen. The movie seems to be celebrating a namesake Artorius, portrayed by...


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encyclopedia articles on: Sarmatia  - 6 results

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Sarmatia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SARMATIA sarma sh , ancient district between the Vistula River and the Caspian Sea, occupied by the Sarmatians Lat. Sarmatae from the...
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Ossetia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Eastern Orthodox Christians in the south, where Georgian culture prevails. They are descended from the medieval Alans (see Sarmatia ). During the 17th cent. the Northern Ossetians were subject to Karbada princelings. From the 18th cent. they came under...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...by the Scythians (see under Scythia ); in the 3d cent. b.c. the Scythians were displaced by the Sarmatians (see under Sarmatia ). Later the open steppes of Russia were invaded by numerous peoples, notably the Germanic Goths (3d cent. a.d...
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of present-day Ukraine was inhabited by the Scythians (see Scythia ), who were later displaced by the Sarmatians (see Sarmatia ). Early in the Christian era, a series of invaders (Goths, Huns, Avars) overran the Ukrainian steppes, and in the 7th...
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Alans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALANS or Alani: see Sarmatia . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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