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The Pontic steppe was ruled by the Sarmatians, a sizable coalition of ancient Eastern Iranian equine nomads, who lived there from roughly the third century BCE to the fourth century CE. The Sarmatians were a subgroup of the larger Scythian societies and had their origins in the middle of the Eurasian Steppe. Around the fourth and third century BC, they began to migrate westward, and by 200 BC, they had surpassed the nearly related Scythians in power. These tribes reportedly reached their maximum documented size in the year 100 BC, bordering the Black and Caspian oceans, the Caucasus to the south, and from the rivers Vistula, Danube as well as Volga to the east. In partnership with Germanic tribes, the Sarmatians started expanding on the Roman Empire in the first century AD. However, t heir rule over the Pontic Steppe was finally overthrown by the Germanic Goths in the third century AD. Many Sarmatians joined the Goths and other Germanic tribes (Vandals) in settling the Western Roman Empire after the Hunnic invasions of the fourth century. The Volga-Don and Ural steppes are frequently referred to as the Sarmatian Motherland because the Sarmatians dominated a significant portion of modern-day Russia in the fifth century BC, particularly the area between the Ural Mountains and the Don River. While some of the Sarmatians in the Bosporan Kingdom were absorbed into Greek culture, others were gradually assimilated by the proto-Circassian Meot tribe, the Alans and the Goths. The Early Slavs merged and incorporated the other Sarmatians. The Alans, a Sarmatian-related people that persisted in the North Caucasus into the Early Middle Ages, eventually gave origin to the contemporary Ossetic ethnic group. Sometimes, Sauromatai, a name that is probably certainly a variation of Sarmatai, is used in place of the Greek name. Despite historical claims to the contrary, it is very definitely untrue that the Sarmatians got their name from the Greek word for lizard (sauros), which is connected to their usage of scale armour and dragon flags. The Sarmatians themselves reportedly went by the name Arii. The Sarmatians lived in what Greco-Roman researches referred to as Sarmatia, which roughly corresponds to modern-day Central Ukraine, South-Eastern Ukraine, Southern Russia, Russian Volga, and South-Ural regions, as well as to a lesser extent the northeastern Balkans and the area surrounding Moldova. Sarmatia was the western portion of Greater Scythia. [Information and Image Credit : Sarmatians, Wikipedia] [Image : Sarmatian Ctaphracts during Dacian Wars as depicted on Column of Trajan] [Image Availed Under Public Domain Work in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the life of author plus 80 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1927. (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property)][Original Source Image URL :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:028_Conrad_Cichorius,_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule,_Tafel_XXVIII_(Ausschnitt_01).jpg ]












 




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