See also:

• SARMATAE, or SAUROMATAE (the second form is mostly used by the earlier Greek writers, the other by the later Greeksand the Romans)

SARMATAE, or SAUROMATAE (the second See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form is mostly used by the earlier See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek writers, the other by the later Greeksand the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans)  , a See also:

• PEOPLE

people whom See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (iv . 21 . 117) puts on the eastern boundary of See also:

• SCYTHIA (Gr. EKuOia)

Scythia (q.v.) beyond the Tanais (See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don) . He says expressly that they were not pure Scythians, but, being descended from See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young Scythian men and See also:

• AMAZONS

Amazons, spoke an impure See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect and allowed their See also:

• WOMEN

women to take See also:

• PART

part in See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war and to enjoy much freedom . Later writers See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call some of them the " woman-ruled See also:

• SARMATAE, or SAUROMATAE (the second form is mostly used by the earlier Greek writers, the other by the later Greeksand the Romans)

Sarmatae." See also:

• HIPPOCRATES

Hippocrates (De Aere, &c., 24) classes them as Scythian . From this we may infer that they spoke a See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language cognate with the Scythic . The greater part of the See also:

• BARBARIAN (Gr. fap/3apos)

barbarian names occurring in the See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions of See also:

• OLBIA
• OLBIA (Gr. bX/3ia, i.e. happy; mod. Terranova Pausania, q.v.)

Olbia, Tanais and Panticapaeum are supposed to be Sarmatian, and as they have been well explained from the Iranian language now spoken by the Ossetes of the See also:

• CAUCASUS

Caucasus, these are supposed to be the representatives of the Sarmatae and can be shown to have a See also:

• DIRECT

direct connexion with the See also:

• ALANI (Gr. 'AXavoi, 'AAavvoi ; Chinese 'O-lan-na; since the 9th century A.U. they have been called As, Russ. Jasy, Georgian Ossi)

Alani (q.v.), one of their tribes . By the 3rd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C. the Sarmatae appear to have supplanted the Scyths proper in the plains of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia, where they remained dominant until the See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic and Hunnish invasions . Their See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief divisions were the See also:

• RHOXOLANI

Rhoxolani (q.v.), the See also:

• IAZYGES

Iazyges (q.v.), with whom the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans had to See also:

• DEAL

deal on the See also:

• DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

Danube and See also:

• THEISS (Hungarian, Tisza; Lat., Tisia or Tissus)

Theiss; and the Alani . The See also:

• TERM

term Sarmatia is applied by later writers to as much as was known of what is now Russia, including all that which the older authorities call Scythia, the latter name being transferred to regions farther See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east . See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy gives maps of See also:

• EUROPEAN

European and See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic Sarmatia . (E .

H .