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SarmatianAny member of a people originally of Iranian stock who migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains in the 6th–4th centuries BC and settled in southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans. Closely related to the Scythians, they were expert horsemen and warriors and gained wide influence through administrative and political astuteness. Women fought alongside men and may have inspired Greek tales of Amazons. By the 5th century BC they controlled the land between the Urals and the Don, and by the 2nd century they had conquered the Scythians to rule almost all southern Russia. Allied with Germanic tribes, they continued to pose a threat to the West until the 1st century AD. After invading Dacia and the lower Danube, they were overrun by the Goths. Many joined the Gothic invasion of western Europe. Sarmatia was destroyed by Huns after AD 370. Their descendants cannot be traced after the 5th century. Sarmatian [sär′mā·shən] (geology) A European stage of geologic time: the upper Miocene, above Tortonian, below Pontian. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | A team of 35-40 archaeologists are working in an area of two hectares, and have now identified the traces of three phases of the settlement: one in the early Bronze Age between 2700-2500 BC, the Sarmatian period around the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD as well as the youngest phase in the 8th and 9th centuries, leader of the excavations Krisztian Szilagyi told MTI. And that very first ECHO included reports of disturbances in the Transvaal, a court appearance by two men accused of murder in Widnes, the anticipated arrival in Liverpool of Princess Louise aboard the Allan steamer Sarmatian and a collision in the Mersey between the ferryboat Gem and the schooner Saxon. For centuries the Great Steppe was traversed by successive waves of nomads migrating from the East to the West: the Scythians, Sarmatians, the Huns, and the mighty swell of Mongolo-Tartars which left in its trail the Turkic tribes who became later known as the Kazakhs. |
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